On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > 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())
Thanks, it works, but there is still a minor question, can I sort based on the general numerical value? namely not: : : 83ILE 1 84ALA 2 8SER 0 9GLY 0 : : rather 8 9 ...83 84, Thanks, > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
