Tim Chase:
> to give you a sorting function. It assumes http rather than
> having mixed url-types, such as ftp or mailto. They're easy
> enough to strip off as well, but putting them back on becomes a
> little more exercise.
With a modern Python you don't need to do all that work, you can do:
sorted(urls, key=cleaner)
Where cleaner is a function the finds the important part of a string of
the ones you have to sort.
Bye,
bearophile