Alter insertion sort below to sort a list of strings instead of numbers. It shouldn't return anything - it should sort the list "in place". The sorting should ignore case. For example "Zebra" should come after "apple", "maRker" should come after "marble", etc. Name this function string_sort. After calling this function, the list that was passed in should now contain the exact same strings it did before, but in sorted order.   def insertion_sort(a_list):       """       Sorts a_list in ascending order       """       for index in range(1, len(a_list)):             value = a_list[index]             pos = index - 1             while pos >= 0 and a_list[pos] > value:                   a_list[pos + 1] = a_list[pos]                   pos -= 1             a_list[pos + 1] = value

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Alter insertion sort below to sort a list of strings instead of numbers. It shouldn't return anything - it should sort the list "in place". The sorting should ignore case. For example "Zebra" should come after "apple", "maRker" should come after "marble", etc. Name this function string_sort. After calling this function, the list that was passed in should now contain the exact same strings it did before, but in sorted order.

 

def insertion_sort(a_list):    
  """    
  Sorts a_list in ascending order    
  """    
  for index in range(1, len(a_list)):        
    value = a_list[index]        
    pos = index - 1        
    while pos >= 0 and a_list[pos] > value:            
      a_list[pos + 1] = a_list[pos]            
      pos -= 1        
    a_list[pos + 1] = value

 

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