Python program to Sort Strings by Punctuation count

Given the Strings list, sort by punctuations count.

Input : test_list = [“gfg@%^”, “is”, “Best!”] 
Output : [‘is’, ‘Best!’, ‘gfg@%^’] 
Explanation : 0 < 1 < 3, sorted by punctuation count.

Input : test_list = [“gfg@%^”, “Best!”] 
Output : [ ‘Best!’, ‘gfg@%^’] 
Explanation : 1 < 3, sorted by punctuation count. 

Method #1 : Using string.punctuation + sort()

In this, sorting is done using sort() and punctuations are extracted from punctuation pool from string library. Performs inplace sort.

Python3

# Python3 code to demonstrate working of
# Sort Strings by Punctuation count
# Using string.punctuation + sort()
from string import punctuation

def get_pnc_count(string):

    # getting punctuation count
    return len([ele for ele in string if ele in punctuation])

# initializing list
test_list = ["gfg@%^", "is", "Best!", "fo@#r", "@#$ge24eks!"]

# printing original list
print("The original list is : " + str(test_list))

# performing inplace sort
test_list.sort(key = get_pnc_count)

# printing result
print("Sorted Strings list : " + str(test_list))

Output:

The original list is : [‘gfg@%^’, ‘is’, ‘Best!’, ‘fo@#r’, ‘@#$ge24eks!’] 
Sorted Strings list : [‘is’, ‘Best!’, ‘fo@#r’, ‘gfg@%^’, ‘@#$ge24eks!’] 

Method #2 : Using sorted() + punctuation + lambda

In this, we perform sort using sorted() using lambda to avoid external function to perform task of filtering punctuations extracted using punctuation.

Python3

# Python3 code to demonstrate working of
# Sort Strings by Punctuation count
# Using sorted() + punctuation + lambda
from string import punctuation

# initializing list
test_list = ["gfg@%^", "is", "Best!", "fo@#r", "@#$ge24eks!"]

# printing original list
print("The original list is : " + str(test_list))

# performing sort using sorted() with lambda
# function for filtering
res = sorted(test_list, key=lambda string: len(
    [ele for ele in string if ele in punctuation]))

# printing result
print("Sorted Strings list : " + str(res))

Output:

The original list is : [‘gfg@%^’, ‘is’, ‘Best!’, ‘fo@#r’, ‘@#$ge24eks!’] 
Sorted Strings list : [‘is’, ‘Best!’, ‘fo@#r’, ‘gfg@%^’, ‘@#$ge24eks!’]