下面是马克·拜尔斯的另一个版本的回答。这个版本演示了如何传入一个属性名，该属性名将用于计算列表中的对象。

def natural_sort(l, attrib):
    convert = lambda text: int(text) if text.isdigit() else text.lower()
    alphanum_key = lambda key: [convert(c) for c in re.split('([0-9]+)', key.__dict__[attrib])]
    return sorted(l, key=alphanum_key)

results = natural_sort(albums, 'albumid')

其中albums是一个Album实例列表，albumid是一个字符串属性，名义上包含数字。

很可能functools.cmp_to_key()与python的sort的底层实现密切相关。此外，cmp参数是遗留的。现代的方法是将输入项转换为支持所需的丰富比较操作的对象。

在CPython 2下。X，即使没有实现各自的富比较操作符，也可以对不同类型的对象排序。在CPython 3下。X，不同类型的对象必须显式地支持比较。参见Python如何比较字符串和int?链接到官方文件。大多数答案都依赖于这种隐含的顺序。切换到Python 3。X将需要一个新的类型来实现和统一数字和字符串之间的比较。

Python 2.7.12 (default, Sep 29 2016, 13:30:34) 
>>> (0,"foo") < ("foo",0)
True  

Python 3.5.2 (default, Oct 14 2016, 12:54:53) 
>>> (0,"foo") < ("foo",0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  TypeError: unorderable types: int() < str()

有三种不同的方法。第一种使用嵌套类来利用Python的Iterable比较算法。第二个函数将这个嵌套展开到单个类中。第三种方法放弃了str的子类化，专注于性能。所有都是有时间的;第二辆快了一倍，第三辆快了近六倍。对str进行子类化并不是必需的，而且首先可能是一个坏主意，但它确实带来了某些便利。

排序字符被复制以强制按大小写排序，并交换大小写以强制小写字母优先排序;这就是“自然排序”的典型定义。我无法决定分组的类型;有些人可能更喜欢以下选项，这也会带来显著的性能优势:

d = lambda s: s.lower()+s.swapcase()

在使用的地方，比较运算符被设置为object的运算符，这样它们就不会被functools. total_orders忽略。

import functools
import itertools


@functools.total_ordering
class NaturalStringA(str):
    def __repr__(self):
        return "{}({})".format\
            ( type(self).__name__
            , super().__repr__()
            )
    d = lambda c, s: [ c.NaturalStringPart("".join(v))
                        for k,v in
                       itertools.groupby(s, c.isdigit)
                     ]
    d = classmethod(d)
    @functools.total_ordering
    class NaturalStringPart(str):
        d = lambda s: "".join(c.lower()+c.swapcase() for c in s)
        d = staticmethod(d)
        def __lt__(self, other):
            if not isinstance(self, type(other)):
                return NotImplemented
            try:
                return int(self) < int(other)
            except ValueError:
                if self.isdigit():
                    return True
                elif other.isdigit():
                    return False
                else:
                    return self.d(self) < self.d(other)
        def __eq__(self, other):
            if not isinstance(self, type(other)):
                return NotImplemented
            try:
                return int(self) == int(other)
            except ValueError:
                if self.isdigit() or other.isdigit():
                    return False
                else:
                    return self.d(self) == self.d(other)
        __le__ = object.__le__
        __ne__ = object.__ne__
        __gt__ = object.__gt__
        __ge__ = object.__ge__
    def __lt__(self, other):
        return self.d(self) < self.d(other)
    def __eq__(self, other):
        return self.d(self) == self.d(other)
    __le__ = object.__le__
    __ne__ = object.__ne__
    __gt__ = object.__gt__
    __ge__ = object.__ge__

import functools
import itertools


@functools.total_ordering
class NaturalStringB(str):
    def __repr__(self):
        return "{}({})".format\
            ( type(self).__name__
            , super().__repr__()
            )
    d = lambda s: "".join(c.lower()+c.swapcase() for c in s)
    d = staticmethod(d)
    def __lt__(self, other):
        if not isinstance(self, type(other)):
            return NotImplemented
        groups = map(lambda i: itertools.groupby(i, type(self).isdigit), (self, other))
        zipped = itertools.zip_longest(*groups)
        for s,o in zipped:
            if s is None:
                return True
            if o is None:
                return False
            s_k, s_v = s[0], "".join(s[1])
            o_k, o_v = o[0], "".join(o[1])
            if s_k and o_k:
                s_v, o_v = int(s_v), int(o_v)
                if s_v == o_v:
                    continue
                return s_v < o_v
            elif s_k:
                return True
            elif o_k:
                return False
            else:
                s_v, o_v = self.d(s_v), self.d(o_v)
                if s_v == o_v:
                    continue
                return s_v < o_v
        return False
    def __eq__(self, other):
        if not isinstance(self, type(other)):
            return NotImplemented
        groups = map(lambda i: itertools.groupby(i, type(self).isdigit), (self, other))
        zipped = itertools.zip_longest(*groups)
        for s,o in zipped:
            if s is None or o is None:
                return False
            s_k, s_v = s[0], "".join(s[1])
            o_k, o_v = o[0], "".join(o[1])
            if s_k and o_k:
                s_v, o_v = int(s_v), int(o_v)
                if s_v == o_v:
                    continue
                return False
            elif s_k or o_k:
                return False
            else:
                s_v, o_v = self.d(s_v), self.d(o_v)
                if s_v == o_v:
                    continue
                return False
        return True
    __le__ = object.__le__
    __ne__ = object.__ne__
    __gt__ = object.__gt__
    __ge__ = object.__ge__

import functools
import itertools
import enum


class OrderingType(enum.Enum):
    PerWordSwapCase         = lambda s: s.lower()+s.swapcase()
    PerCharacterSwapCase    = lambda s: "".join(c.lower()+c.swapcase() for c in s)


class NaturalOrdering:
    @classmethod
    def by(cls, ordering):
        def wrapper(string):
            return cls(string, ordering)
        return wrapper
    def __init__(self, string, ordering=OrderingType.PerCharacterSwapCase):
        self.string = string
        self.groups = [ (k,int("".join(v)))
                            if k else
                        (k,ordering("".join(v)))
                            for k,v in
                        itertools.groupby(string, str.isdigit)
                      ]
    def __repr__(self):
        return "{}({})".format\
            ( type(self).__name__
            , self.string
            )
    def __lesser(self, other, default):
        if not isinstance(self, type(other)):
            return NotImplemented
        for s,o in itertools.zip_longest(self.groups, other.groups):
            if s is None:
                return True
            if o is None:
                return False
            s_k, s_v = s
            o_k, o_v = o
            if s_k and o_k:
                if s_v == o_v:
                    continue
                return s_v < o_v
            elif s_k:
                return True
            elif o_k:
                return False
            else:
                if s_v == o_v:
                    continue
                return s_v < o_v
        return default
    def __lt__(self, other):
        return self.__lesser(other, default=False)
    def __le__(self, other):
        return self.__lesser(other, default=True)
    def __eq__(self, other):
        if not isinstance(self, type(other)):
            return NotImplemented
        for s,o in itertools.zip_longest(self.groups, other.groups):
            if s is None or o is None:
                return False
            s_k, s_v = s
            o_k, o_v = o
            if s_k and o_k:
                if s_v == o_v:
                    continue
                return False
            elif s_k or o_k:
                return False
            else:
                if s_v == o_v:
                    continue
                return False
        return True
    # functools.total_ordering doesn't create single-call wrappers if both
    # __le__ and __lt__ exist, so do it manually.
    def __gt__(self, other):
        op_result = self.__le__(other)
        if op_result is NotImplemented:
            return op_result
        return not op_result
    def __ge__(self, other):
        op_result = self.__lt__(other)
        if op_result is NotImplemented:
            return op_result
        return not op_result
    # __ne__ is the only implied ordering relationship, it automatically
    # delegates to __eq__

>>> import natsort
>>> import timeit
>>> l1 = ['Apple', 'corn', 'apPlE', 'arbour', 'Corn', 'Banana', 'apple', 'banana']
>>> l2 = list(map(str, range(30)))
>>> l3 = ["{} {}".format(x,y) for x in l1 for y in l2]
>>> print(timeit.timeit('sorted(l3+["0"], key=NaturalStringA)', number=10000, globals=globals()))
362.4729259099986
>>> print(timeit.timeit('sorted(l3+["0"], key=NaturalStringB)', number=10000, globals=globals()))
189.7340817489967
>>> print(timeit.timeit('sorted(l3+["0"], key=NaturalOrdering.by(OrderingType.PerCharacterSwapCase))', number=10000, globals=globals()))
69.34636392899847
>>> print(timeit.timeit('natsort.natsorted(l3+["0"], alg=natsort.ns.GROUPLETTERS | natsort.ns.LOWERCASEFIRST)', number=10000, globals=globals()))
98.2531585780016

自然排序既相当复杂，又定义模糊。不要忘记事先运行unicodedata.normalize(…)，并考虑使用str.casefold()而不是str.lower()。可能有一些微妙的编码问题我还没有考虑到。因此，我尝试性地推荐natsort库。我快速浏览了一下github存储库;代码维护非常出色。

All the algorithms I've seen depend on tricks such as duplicating and lowering characters, and swapping case. While this doubles the running time, an alternative would require a total natural ordering on the input character set. I don't think this is part of the unicode specification, and since there are many more unicode digits than [0-9], creating such a sorting would be equally daunting. If you want locale-aware comparisons, prepare your strings with locale.strxfrm per Python's Sorting HOW TO.

一种选择是将字符串转换为元组，并使用展开形式http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_expanded_form_mean替换数字

这样a90就会变成("a"，90,0)而a1就会变成("a"，1)

下面是一些示例代码(这不是很有效，因为它从数字中删除前导0的方式)

alist=["something1",
    "something12",
    "something17",
    "something2",
    "something25and_then_33",
    "something25and_then_34",
    "something29",
    "beta1.1",
    "beta2.3.0",
    "beta2.33.1",
    "a001",
    "a2",
    "z002",
    "z1"]

def key(k):
    nums=set(list("0123456789"))
        chars=set(list(k))
    chars=chars-nums
    for i in range(len(k)):
        for c in chars:
            k=k.replace(c+"0",c)
    l=list(k)
    base=10
    j=0
    for i in range(len(l)-1,-1,-1):
        try:
            l[i]=int(l[i])*base**j
            j+=1
        except:
            j=0
    l=tuple(l)
    print l
    return l

print sorted(alist,key=key)

输出:

('s', 'o', 'm', 'e', 't', 'h', 'i', 'n', 'g', 1)
('s', 'o', 'm', 'e', 't', 'h', 'i', 'n', 'g', 10, 2)
('s', 'o', 'm', 'e', 't', 'h', 'i', 'n', 'g', 10, 7)
('s', 'o', 'm', 'e', 't', 'h', 'i', 'n', 'g', 2)
('s', 'o', 'm', 'e', 't', 'h', 'i', 'n', 'g', 20, 5, 'a', 'n', 'd', '_', 't', 'h', 'e', 'n', '_', 30, 3)
('s', 'o', 'm', 'e', 't', 'h', 'i', 'n', 'g', 20, 5, 'a', 'n', 'd', '_', 't', 'h', 'e', 'n', '_', 30, 4)
('s', 'o', 'm', 'e', 't', 'h', 'i', 'n', 'g', 20, 9)
('b', 'e', 't', 'a', 1, '.', 1)
('b', 'e', 't', 'a', 2, '.', 3, '.')
('b', 'e', 't', 'a', 2, '.', 30, 3, '.', 1)
('a', 1)
('a', 2)
('z', 2)
('z', 1)
['a001', 'a2', 'beta1.1', 'beta2.3.0', 'beta2.33.1', 'something1', 'something2', 'something12', 'something17', 'something25and_then_33', 'something25and_then_34', 'something29', 'z1', 'z002']

>>> import re
>>> sorted(lst, key=lambda x: int(re.findall(r'\d+$', x)[0]))
['elm0', 'elm1', 'Elm2', 'elm9', 'elm10', 'Elm11', 'Elm12', 'elm13']

data = ['elm13', 'elm9', 'elm0', 'elm1', 'Elm11', 'Elm2', 'elm10']

让我们分析一下数据。所有元素的数字容量为2。在常见的字面部分“elm”中有3个字母。

所以，元素的最大长度是5。我们可以增加这个值以确保(例如，增加到8)。

记住这一点，我们有一个简单的解决方案:

data.sort(key=lambda x: '{0:0>8}'.format(x).lower())

没有正则表达式和外部库!

print(data)

>>> ['elm0', 'elm1', 'Elm2', 'elm9', 'elm10', 'Elm11', 'elm13']

解释:

for elm in data:
    print('{0:0>8}'.format(elm).lower())

>>>
0000elm0
0000elm1
0000elm2
0000elm9
000elm10
000elm11
000elm13

让我就这一需求提出自己的看法:

from typing import Tuple, Union, Optional, Generator


StrOrInt = Union[str, int]


# On Python 3.6, string concatenation is REALLY fast
# Tested myself, and this fella also tested:
# https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2019/11/string-concat.html
def griter(s: str) -> Generator[StrOrInt, None, None]:
    last_was_digit: Optional[bool] = None
    cluster: str = ""
    for c in s:
        if last_was_digit is None:
            last_was_digit = c.isdigit()
            cluster += c
            continue
        if c.isdigit() != last_was_digit:
            if last_was_digit:
                yield int(cluster)
            else:
                yield cluster
            last_was_digit = c.isdigit()
            cluster = ""
        cluster += c
    if last_was_digit:
        yield int(cluster)
    else:
        yield cluster
    return


def grouper(s: str) -> Tuple[StrOrInt, ...]:
    return tuple(griter(s))

现在如果我们有这样的列表:

filelist = [
    'File3', 'File007', 'File3a', 'File10', 'File11', 'File1', 'File4', 'File5',
    'File9', 'File8', 'File8b1', 'File8b2', 'File8b11', 'File6'
]

我们可以简单地使用key= kwarg来进行自然排序:

>>> sorted(filelist, key=grouper)
['File1', 'File3', 'File3a', 'File4', 'File5', 'File6', 'File007', 'File8', 
'File8b1', 'File8b2', 'File8b11', 'File9', 'File10', 'File11']

当然，这里的缺点是，就像现在一样，该函数将对大写字母在小写字母之前进行排序。

我将把不区分大小写的grouper的实现留给读者:-)