Answer by Moinuddin Quadri for How do I sort a list with positives coming before negatives with values sorted respectively?

Create two lists, one with positive value and another with the negative values and then sort the content of each list the way you like. For example:

my_list = [1, -2, 10, -12, -4, -5, 9, 2]pos_list, neg_list = [], []for item in my_list:    if item < 0:         neg_list.append(item)    else:        pos_list.append(item)final_list = sorted(pos_list) + sorted(neg_list)