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humansort.py
import re
def natural_keys(text):
return [ int(c) if c.isdigit() else c for c in re.split('(\d+)',text) ]
# example
my_list =['Hello1', 'Hello12', 'Hello29', 'Hello2', 'Hello17', 'Hello25']
my_list.sort(key=natural_keys)
print(my_list)
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