Sorting List

[Pedroski55]

Of course Dead_EyE obviously knows a lot more about this than EyE, sorry I.
Sitting on the train from Shanghai, I came up with this!
I just wanted to cater for input strings which are maybe not uniform. Then I think you need re.
Still, names with non-word characters will cause trouble.

import re

mylist1 = ['Finley : 10', 'Evie : 0', 'P1 : 0', 'P2 : 5', 'P1 : 0', 'P2 : 5', 'Finley : 15', 'Evie : 5']
mylist2 = ['Finley,10', 'Evie,0', 'P1,0', 'P2,5', 'P1,0', 'P2,5', 'Finley,15', 'Evie,5']
mylist3 = ['Fin#1ley#1,10', 'Ev@ie,0', 'P&1,0', 'P&2,5', 'P*1,0', 'P$2,5', 'Finle-y,15', 'Evi!e,5']

# as long as the name is at the start of the string and the number at the end
# and name and number are separated by a non-word character, this should find them.

# finds a word at the beginning of the string using ^
# stops at the first non-word character
pattern1 = re.compile(r'^\w+')
# matches numbers at the end of the string using $
pattern2 = re.compile(r'\d+$')

# having found them, can't be too hard to sort them!


for m in mylist1:
    print('string is', m)    
    match1 = re.search(pattern1, m)
    start = match1.span()[0]
    stop = match1.span()[1] + 1
    name = m[start:stop]
    print('Name is', name)
    match2 = re.search(pattern2, m)
    start = match2.span()[0]
    stop = match2.span()[1] + 1
    score = m[start:stop]
    print('Score is', score, '\n\n')

for m in mylist2:
    print('string is', m)    
    match1 = re.search(pattern1, m)
    start = match1.span()[0]
    stop = match1.span()[1] + 1
    name = m[start:stop]
    print('Name is', name)
    match2 = re.search(pattern2, m)
    start = match2.span()[0]
    stop = match2.span()[1] + 1
    score = m[start:stop]
    print('Score is', score, '\n\n') 

for m in mylist3:
    print('string is', m)    
    match1 = re.search(pattern1, m)
    start = match1.span()[0]
    stop = match1.span()[1] + 1
    name = m[start:stop]
    print('Name is', name)
    match2 = re.search(pattern2, m)
    start = match2.span()[0]
    stop = match2.span()[1] + 1
    score = m[start:stop]
    print('Score is', score, '\n\n')