Sort A String Of Lines In Python

This is how to sort a string with lines of text in python

string = '''
  d
  a
  c
  
  b
  e
  '''

  lines = sorted(
      list(
          filter(lambda x: x != '', string.split("\n"))
      ))

  print(lines)

#+RESULTS: : ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']

The filter() removes empty lines

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