evil uca sort

uca.py

import re
import urllib

def uca_sort(l, locale='en', _re_nums=re.compile('<tt class="count">(\d+):</tt>')):
    """Uses the ICU demo site to sort a list"""
    url = 'http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp'
    url += '?_=' + locale + '&d_=en&x=col'
    data = 'str=' + '\n'.join(l)
    html = urllib.urlopen(url, data).read()
    
    all_nums = re_nums.findall(html)
    sorted_nums = all_nums[len(l):]
    sorted_nums = [int(n) - 1 for n in sorted_nums]
    return [l[i] for i in sorted_nums]