How to sort the letters in a string alphabetically in Python

Question

Is there an easy way to sort the letters in a string alphabetically in Python?

So for:

a = 'ZENOVW'

I would like to return:

'ENOVWZ'

Answer 1

You can do:

>>> a = 'ZENOVW'
>>> ''.join(sorted(a))
'ENOVWZ'