pythonlistsortingabsolute-value

Sort a list in python

I have this list

[1,-5,10,6,3,-4,-9]

But now I want the list to be sorted like this:

[10,-9,6,-5,-4,3,1]

As you can see I want to order from high to low no matter what sign each number has, but keeping the sign, is it clear?

Solution

  • Use abs as key to the sorted function or list.sort:

    >>> lis = [1,-5,10,6,3,-4,-9]
>>> sorted(lis, key=abs, reverse=True)
[10, -9, 6, -5, -4, 3, 1]