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| From | alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Sort lines in a plain text file alphanumerically |
| Date | 2013-08-06 13:51 +1000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ktprfh$lpf$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <520058D7.10105@Gmail.com> <mailman.228.1375758799.1251.python-list@python.org> <ktprbs$lpf$1@dont-email.me> |
On 6/08/2013 1:49 PM, alex23 wrote:
> Shouldn't that be:
>
> with open('/home/collier/pytest/__sort.TXT') as file:
> data = file.readlines()
> sorted(data, key=str.casefold, reverse=True)
>
> I'm tempted to say "HINT #5: don't provide a solution without testing it
> first" but that would be pretty obnoxious.
Even more so when I got it wrong myself :)
data = sorted(file.readlines(), key=str.casefold, reverse=True)
I can never remember which one sorts in place and which doesn't.
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Re: Sort lines in a plain text file alphanumerically Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-06 04:12 +0100
Re: Sort lines in a plain text file alphanumerically alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 13:49 +1000
Re: Sort lines in a plain text file alphanumerically alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 13:51 +1000
Re: Sort lines in a plain text file alphanumerically alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 14:33 +1000
Re: Sort lines in a plain text file alphanumerically Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 06:40 -0400
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