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2026-06-30

When sorting gets hilariously broken

To all tech people: How can you actually sort a list by only the first letter of the string and then leave the rest completely random? 🧐

I mean, it's not even a lazy mistake. It seems significantly more complex than just sorting by country name ALPHABETICALLY, right? 😅

Hey Dun & Bradstreet Europe, you might wanna put this in your Backlog 😬

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erik collard linkedin Post criticizing poor alphabetical sorting in Dun & Bradstreet system
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My guess is that it's not actually sorting alphabetically on the name. It's sorting on some other field, or not having a sort applied, and that's the order you're seeing.

Nina

my_list = ["banana", "apple", "avocado", "blueberry", "cherry"]

sorted_list = sorted(my_list, key=lambda x: x[0])

print(sorted_list)

Werner

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