fix issue with partial ordering in external/internal and cleanup

.ci/generateIndex.py

@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ for folder in cardDirs:
                 # set the header of the section
                 #index += "\n### " + d.replace("-", " ").capitalize() + "\n"
 
-
                 # get the index of the section
                 indexS = sections.index(d)
                 maxOrder = 0
@@ -204,9 +203,6 @@ for folder in cardDirs:
                                 # define the header for each card
                                 header = "---\n"
 
-
-                                print(orderArr)
-
                                 if len(order) > 0:
                                     header += "order: " + str(order) + "\n"
                                     #  append the order of the card
@@ -221,11 +217,8 @@ for folder in cardDirs:
                                         folderFlag = False
 
                                     tmp = orderArr[indexS]
-                                    print("tmp")
-                                    print(tmp)
                                     tmp.append(maxOrder + int(order))
                                     orderArr[indexS] = tmp
-                                    print(tmp)
                                 else:
                                     orderArr[indexS] = []
 
@@ -291,17 +284,14 @@ for folder in cardDirs:
                                 print(" + New header added.")
                                 print("-----------------------")
 
-                if len(orderArr[indexS]) > 0:
-                    print("here")
-                    print(localIndexArr[indexS])
-                    print(orderArr[indexS])
+                # join all subcategories to the index
+                # if all subcategories have a predefined order
+                if len(orderArr[indexS]) == len(localIndexArr[indexS]) and len(orderArr[indexS]) > 0:
                     X = localIndexArr[indexS][1:]
                     Y = orderArr[indexS]
                     localIndexArr[indexS] = [x for _, x in sorted(zip(Y, X))]
-
-                    print(localIndexArr[indexS])
+                # natural sorting otherwise
                 else:
-                    # join all subcategories to the index
                     localIndexArr[indexS] = natsorted(localIndexArr[indexS])
 
 print(localIndexArr)