reorder characters in a string in Python [duplicate]

Question

Wondering if there is a simple way to reorder characters in a string in alphabet order?

Saying, if "hello", want it to be "ehllo"? Tried sort method does not exist. If anyone have any great ideas, it will be great.

a = 'hello'
print a.sort()

thanks in advance, Lin

look at the link. it makes use of str.join(list) and sorted(iterable) methods — R Nar
– R Nar, Commented Nov 13, 2015 at 23:58
I think the first comment had a typo and was supposed to be print(''.join(sorted("hello"))) — Galax
– Galax, Commented Nov 14, 2015 at 0:03
@Galax, yes, that is my bad. because it is python 2, the out most brackets are not necessary but the call to join should be in brackets — R Nar
– R Nar, Commented Nov 14, 2015 at 0:04

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:30:13Z

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Try this:

a = 'hello'
a = ''.join(sorted(a))
print a

It should return 'ehllo'.

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answered Nov 14, 2015 at 0:05

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4 Comments

Thanks user1159580, smart answer!

@LinMa: if it helped you, could you accept it?

@jermenkoo, good question, will definitely accept. Done. :)

Thanks Brian! Mark as answered and have a good weekend.