Pastable version of Custom sort a list of words

<pre class='prettyprint' language='python'>def sort(words):

sortedList = []

for i in range(len(words)):

word = words[i]

if not sortedList:

sortedList.append(word)

else:

for j in range(len(sortedList)):

sortedWord = sortedList[j]

if isLeftWordBeforeRight(word, sortedWord):

sortedList.insert(j, word)

break

elif j == (len(sortedList) - 1):

sortedList.append(word)

return sortedList

def isLeftWordBeforeRight(left, right):

isBefore = False

if right.startswith(left):

isBefore = True

else:

for n in range(len(left)):

if n &lt; len(right):

comparison = compareChars(left[n], right[n])

if comparison != 0:

isBefore = comparison &lt; 0

break

return isBefore

def compareChars(left, right):

return  alphabet.find(left) - alphabet.find(right)

alphabet = &quot;zyxwvutsrqpomnlkjihgfedcba&quot;

inputWords = [&quot;england&quot;, &quot;france&quot;, &quot;spain&quot;, &quot;italy&quot;, &quot;greece&quot;, &quot;portugal&quot;,

&quot;canada&quot;, &quot;usa&quot;, &quot;mexico&quot;, &quot;peru&quot;, &quot;cuba&quot;, &quot;chile&quot;, &quot;argentina&quot;,

&quot;zimbabwe&quot;, &quot;uganda&quot;, &quot;congo&quot;, &quot;zambia&quot;, &quot;namibia&quot;, &quot;ghana&quot;]

print sort(inputWords)</pre>
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