"kj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | I'm downloading some very large tables from a remote site. I want | to sort these tables in a particular way before saving them to | disk. In the past I found that the most efficient way to do this | was to piggy-back on Unix's highly optimized sort command. So,
If the tables can fit in memory as a list of key,text tuples and if they have some of the non-random structure exploited by Python's current list.sort (only documented, as far as I know, either in the source or test code, not sure), then you might consider that. Otherwise, use the system sort. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
