Re: Sort lines in a text file

2007-07-23 Thread James Stroud
Daniel wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:03:17 +0300, leegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: say I have a text file: zz3 uaa4a ss 7 uu zz 3 66 ppazz9 a0zz0 I want to sort the text file. I want the key to be the number after the two zz. Or I guess a string of two zz then a

Re: Sort lines in a text file

2007-07-22 Thread John Machin
On Jul 22, 1:03 pm, leegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: say I have a text file: zz3 uaa4a ss 7 uu zz 3 66 ppazz9 a0zz0 I want to sort the text file. I want the key to be the number after the two zz. Or I guess a string of two zz then a numberSo that's 3, 9, 0 I'm

Re: Sort lines in a text file

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:03:17 +0300, leegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: say I have a text file: zz3 uaa4a ss 7 uu zz 3 66 ppazz9 a0zz0 I want to sort the text file. I want the key to be the number after the two zz. Or I guess a string of two zz then a numberSo that's

Re: Sort lines in a text file

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:03:17 +0300, leegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: say I have a text file: zz3 uaa4a ss 7 uu zz 3 66 ppazz9 a0zz0 I want to sort the text file. I want the key to be the number after the two zz. Or I guess a string of two zz then a numberSo that's

Re: Sort lines in a text file

2007-07-22 Thread leegold
...snip... To save anybody who's tempted to write the whole shebang for you, please specify which part(s) of the exercise you are having problems with: (a) reading lines from a file (b) extracting a sort key from a line [presuming number means positive integer; what do you want to do if

Re: Sort lines in a text file

2007-07-22 Thread leegold
...snip... Do your own homework. Hush troll. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Sort lines in a text file

2007-07-21 Thread leegold
say I have a text file: zz3 uaa4a ss 7 uu zz 3 66 ppazz9 a0zz0 I want to sort the text file. I want the key to be the number after the two zz. Or I guess a string of two zz then a numberSo that's 3, 9, 0 I'm trying to say that I want to sort lines in a file based on a