def _GetSortedMethods(self, methods):
    if not methods:
      return methods


    def _SortMethodsComparison(method_info1, method_info2):
      """Sort method info by path and http_method.

      Args:
        method_info1: Method name and info for the first method to compare.
        method_info2: Method name and info for the method to compare to.

      Returns:
        Negative if the first method should come first, positive if the
        first method should come after the second.  Zero if they're
        equivalent.
      """

      def _ScorePath(path):
        """Calculate the score for this path, used for comparisons.

        Higher scores have priority, and if scores are equal, the path text
        is sorted alphabetically.  Scores are based on the number and location
        of the constant parts of the path.  The server has some special handling
        for variables with regexes, which we don't handle here.

        Args:
          path: The request path that we're calculating a score for.

        Returns:
          The score for the given path.
        """





        score = 0
        parts = path.split('/')
        for part in parts:
          score <<= 1
          if not part or part[0] != '{':

            score += 1



        score <<= 31 - len(parts)
        return score


      path_score1 = _ScorePath(method_info1[1].get('path', ''))
      path_score2 = _ScorePath(method_info2[1].get('path', ''))
      if path_score1 != path_score2:
        return path_score2 - path_score1


      path_result = cmp(method_info1[1].get('path', ''),
                        method_info2[1].get('path', ''))
      if path_result != 0:
        return path_result


      method_result = cmp(method_info1[1].get('httpMethod', ''),
                          method_info2[1].get('httpMethod', ''))
      return method_result

    return sorted(methods.items(), _SortMethodsComparison)
Get a copy of 'methods' sorted the same way AppEngine sorts them.
dataset/ETHPy150Open AppScale/appscale/AppServer/google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver_apiserver.py/ApiConfigManager._GetSortedMethods