# spacepy.toolbox.human_sort

spacepy.toolbox.human_sort(l)

  Sort the given list in the way that humans expect. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/12/sorting-for-humans-natural-sort-order.html

  Parameters
    l list

      list of objects to human sort

  Returns
    out list

      sorted list

  Examples

      >>> import spacepy.toolbox as tb
      >>> dat = ['r1.txt', 'r10.txt', 'r2.txt']
      >>> dat.sort()
      >>> print dat
      ['r1.txt', 'r10.txt', 'r2.txt']
      >>> tb.human_sort(dat)
      ['r1.txt', 'r2.txt', 'r10.txt']