Stephen Thorne wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:49:53 -0500, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Aahz wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Note that the sort order isn't perfect - I just sorted on the second "word" in each name. PyCon is a *great* place to meet people and discuss ideas. Hope to see you there.
Good thing I'm not coming this year, eh? ;-)
If you mean specifically for sorting purposes, it would have put the null second name at the beginning just like you'd expect.
Odd, the naive way I would have written such a script would have been:
all_names = (line.split() for line in sys.stdin) sys.stdout.writelines(' '.join(x[1])+'\n' for x in sorted((name[1], name) for name in all_names))
which would not have worked correctly, it would have thrown an exception because "Aahz\n".split()[1] does not exist.
I guess the second iteration would use name[1:] instead...
unfortunately-not-going-to-pycon-ly y'rs. Stephen Thorne
Sorry you can't make it to Python. My even-naiver way of approaching the problem was to use the sort utility built into Cygwin, thereby avoiding writing any code at all.
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