filesorter.py sorts incorrectly

[lfrank]

The current sort sorts by length first, then the item. It should be item, len(item)

[aleksandercwikla]

Hi Loren!
If we use (item, len(item)), you will get bad order. e.g.:
a1, a10, a2
instead of
a1, a2, a10

[lfrank]

Not sure what is going on here, but I was getting the wrong order until I made this switch, as we have some datasets that are numbered 01_sleep, 02_lineaertrack, 03_sleep, and the sort order was 01..., 03..., 02... Loren Loren Frank Professor Howard Hughes Medical Institute Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience UCSF Center for Integrative Neuroscience University of California, San Francisco 415-502-7357

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On Nov 13, 2020, at 7:22 AM, acwikla ***@***.***> wrote:  Hi Loren! If we use (item, len(item)), you will get bad order. e.g.: a1, a10, a2 instead of a1, a2, a10 — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[lfrank]

Oh, now I understand. We number epochs 01, 02, …, 11, 12, etc. We will never have > 99 epochs in a dataset, so sorting by name is correct for us. Loren

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On Nov 13, 2020, at 8:57 AM, Loren Frank ***@***.***> wrote: Not sure what is going on here, but I was getting the wrong order until I made this switch, as we have some datasets that are numbered 01_sleep, 02_lineaertrack, 03_sleep, and the sort order was 01..., 03..., 02... Loren Loren Frank Professor Howard Hughes Medical Institute Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience UCSF Center for Integrative Neuroscience University of California, San Francisco 415-502-7357 > On Nov 13, 2020, at 7:22 AM, acwikla ***@***.***> wrote: > >  > > Hi Loren! > If we use (item, len(item)), you will get bad order. e.g.: > a1, a10, a2 > instead of > a1, a2, a10 > > — > You are receiving this because you authored the thread. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#541 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABV4PSN3RNAIBXCGIVJI6KTSPVFNBANCNFSM4TSZR3GA>. >

[aleksandercwikla]

Should I change the type of sorting to the one you have indicated?
Please consider renaming your datasets to similar structure as those you have provided us with.

[lfrank]

Please do change it; we need the flexibility to name things differently across experiments. Loren

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On Nov 16, 2020, at 12:43 AM, acwikla ***@***.***> wrote:  Should I change the type of sorting to the one you have indicated? Please consider renaming your datasets to similar structure as those you have provided us with. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.