List of pathlib.Paths Not Ordered As Same List of Same String Filenames

[heiner55]

Path(filename) is an object and not a string.
If you take the string instead, the sort is identical.

paths_for_testing = [
    str(Path(filename))      # <== take str(object)
    for filename in filenames_for_testing
]

Windows 7 with Python 3.6.2:

Output:
Ordered list of string filenames:

    /spam/another.txt
    /spam/binary.bin
    /spam/spam.txt
    /spam/spams.txt
    /spam/spams/spam.ttt
    /spam/spams/spam01.txt
    /spam/spams/spam02.txt
    /spam/spams/spam03.ppp
    /spam/spams/spam04.doc


Ordered list of pathlib.Paths:

    \spam\another.txt
    \spam\binary.bin
    \spam\spam.txt
    \spam\spams.txt
    \spam\spams\spam.ttt
    \spam\spams\spam01.txt
    \spam\spams\spam02.txt
    \spam\spams\spam03.ppp
    \spam\spams\spam04.doc