example of lambdas in sorts

gistfile1.py

def main():
        lstIn = "dog,horse,cat,trouser,shark,artichoke,constantine,Christmas,Antartica,Ninja,Sanitizer".split(",")
        lst1 = sorted(lstIn)                                #looks ok, but sorts on ord(c)
        print lst1                                          #uppers before lowers
        
        lst2 = sorted(lstIn, key=lambda x: x.lower())       #does a case insenstive sort
        print lst2                                          #what you'd expect from an alphabetic sort
        
        lstIn.sort(key=lambda x: (len(x),lst2.index(x)))    #to sort on n vars, return an n-tupple
        print lstIn                                         #list sorted by length of word then alphabet
        
	return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()