Python port of BDRC's JS Library to sort Tibetan

This is a Python port of tibetan-sort-js.

Installation

`pip3 install tibetan_sort`

API

sort_list

Sorts a list of strings using the compare() method.

Parameters

• a list list of strings to be sorted

Returns sorted list.

compare

Compares two strings in Tibetan Unicode. The behavior is undefined if the arguments are not strings. Doesn't work well with non-Tibetan strings.

Parameters

• a string first string to be compared.
• b string second string to be compared.

Returns number 0 if equivalent, 1 if a > b, -1 if a < b

Release history

See change log.

Maintainance

Build the source dist:

rm -rf dist/
python3 setup.py clean sdist

and upload on twine (version >= 1.11.0) with:

python3 -m twine upload dist/*

Credits

• JS code by Elie Roux
• ported to Python by 尤志中
• list sorting implemented by Drupchen

License

The code is Copyright 2017-2019 Buddhist Digital Resource Center, and is provided under the MIT License.