- syslocale - Native OS collation routines.
- codepoint - Raw Unicode codepoint comparison
-The different backends have varying features and behaviors; which one
-is best depends on your goals. A specific backend can be used, or a
-"best" backend is chosen by default.
+If available, you'll probably want to use the ICU backend. If it's not
+available, syslocale should work on most Python installations. A
+specific backend can be used, or a "best" backend is chosen by
+default.
pycollate also provides tools to perform word-wise and numeric sorts.
Example
-------
import collate
-strings = file("contents.txt").read().decode("utf-8").splitlines()
+strings = open("contents.txt").read().decode("utf-8").splitlines()
strings.sort(key=collate.key)
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