lina wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote: >> On 11/01/2011 10:11 AM, lina wrote:
>> Just use the sort() method of the list object. In particular, items() >> returns an unordered list, so it's ready to be sorted. >> >> for residues, numbers in new_dictionary.items().sort(): >> >> That will sort such that residues are in sorted order. > > Thanks, but still something went wrong here, > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "fill-gap.py", line 41, in <module> > build_abetadictionary(DICTIONARYFILE,orig_dictionary) > File "fill-gap.py", line 31, in build_abetadictionary > for residues, numbers in new_dictionary.items().sort(): > AttributeError: 'dict_items' object has no attribute 'sort' Dave didn't realize that you are using Python 3 where items() no longer returns a list. You need to change new_dictionary.items().sort() to sorted(new_dictionary.items()) as sorted() will accept an arbitrary iterable. > I have another concerns, > is it possible to append the output file content as a sing one, > such as a.new is > A 1 > B 3 > > b.new is > A 3 > B 5 > > I wish the final one like: > > A 1 3 > B 3 5 > > I will think about it. Thanks, Sorry, I can't make sense of that. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor