Title: Sort A List Of Strings By Length Slug: sort_a_list_of_strings_by_length Summary: Sort A List Of Strings By Length Date: 2016-06-25 12:00
Category: Python
Tags: Data Wrangling
Authors: Chris Albon

Create a list of names



In [1]:

    
commander_names = ["Alan Brooke", "George Marshall", "Frank Jack Fletcher", "Conrad Helfrich", "Albert Kesselring"]

Sort Alphabetically By Length

To complete the sort, we will combine two operations:

lambda x: len(x), which returns the length of each string.
sorted(), which sorts a list.



In [2]:

    
# Sort a variable called 'commander_names' by the length of each string
sorted(commander_names, key=lambda x: len(x))









    Out[2]:





['Alan Brooke',
 'George Marshall',
 'Conrad Helfrich',
 'Albert Kesselring',
 'Frank Jack Fletcher']