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Python | Alternative sorting in a list of strings



Method: Using join () + enumerate () + generator expression + sorted()
This task can be achieved using a combination of the functions above. In this we are doing a sort using only% 2 items in the string list. The expansion of this operation to the entire list is done by a generator expression.

# Python3 code to demonstrate how it works
# List of alternate sort strings
# using join () + enumerate () + generator expression + sorted ()

 
# initialize the list

test_list = [ `cdab` , `gfeh` , ` kjil` ]

 
# print original list

print ( "The original list:" + str (test_list))

 
# List of alternate sort strings
# using join () + enumerate () + generator expression + sorted ()

res = ["". join ( sorted (j, reverse = i % 2 )) for i, j in enumerate (test_list)] 

 
# ne chat

print ( "The String list after alternate sorting: " + str (res))

Output: 

 The original list: [` cdab`, `gfeh`,` kjil`] The String list after alternate sorting: [`abcd`,` hgfe`, `ijkl`]