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On 08/05/2013 11:49 PM, alex23 wrote:
> On 6/08/2013 1:12 PM, Joshua Landau wrote:
>> Because it's bad to open files without a with unless you know what
>> you're doing, use a with:
>>
>>      with open('/home/collier/pytest/__sort.TXT') as file:
>>          sorted(file, key=str.casefold, reverse=True)
>
> 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.
I tried Joshua's suggestion in Python3.3 and it worked. What version of 
Python are you using?

DCJ