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Sort ["Meera", "asha", "Kabir", "Ravi"]. Why does asha come last, and how do you fix it?
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Sort ["Meera", "asha", "Kabir", "Ravi"]. Why does asha come last, and how do you fix it?
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key=str.lower sorts without caring about capital letters.
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sorted(names) gives ['Kabir', 'Meera', 'Ravi', 'asha']. In the computer's order, every capital letter comes before every small letter, so asha is last.
Fix. Sort by the small-letter form of each name: sorted(names, key=str.lower) gives ['asha', 'Kabir', 'Meera', 'Ravi'].
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