J. Mwebaze, 06.05.2012 18:29:
> sorry see, corrected code
>
> for filename in txtfiles:
> temp=[]
> f=open(filename)
> for line in f.readlines():
> line = line.strip()
> line=line.split()
> temp.append((parser.parse(line[0]), float(line[1])))
> temp=sorted(temp)
> with open(filename.strip('.txt')+ '.sorted', 'wb') as p:
> for i, j in temp:
> p.write('%s %s\n' %(str(i),j))
>
>> I have attached one of the files, try to sort and let me know the results.
>> Kindly sort by date. ooops - am told the file exceed 25M.
>>
>> below is the code
>>
>> import glob
>> txtfiles =glob.glob('*.txt')
>> import dateutil.parser as parser
>>
>>
>> for filename in txtfiles:
>> temp=[]
>> f=open(filename)
>> for line in f.readlines():
>> line = line.strip()
>> line=line.split()
>> temp.append((parser.parse(line[0]), float(line[1])))
>> temp=sorted(temp)
>> with open(filename.strip('.txt')+ '.sorted', 'wb') as p:
>> for i, j in temp:
>> p.write('%s %s\n' %(str(i),j))
How much memory do you have on your system? Does the list fit into memory
easily or is it swapping to disk while you are running the sort?
Stefan
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