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Natural Sort
import re
def sorted_nicely(l):
""" Sort the given iterable in the way that humans expect."""
convert = lambda text: int(text) if text.isdigit() else text
alphanum_key = lambda key: [ convert(c) for c in re.split('([0-9]+)', key) ]
return sorted(l, key = alphanum_key)
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