[issue41678] File-level, optionally external sorting

2020-09-03 Thread Platon workaccount
Platon workaccount added the comment: Why is shutil.make_archive suitable for a standard library but the file sorter not? -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue41

[issue41678] File-level, optionally external sorting

2020-08-31 Thread Platon workaccount
Platon workaccount added the comment: I mean Python's analog of sort [-k x.y] table.txt from GNU Coreutils. >> What do you refer when you say "sorting a file"? Sorting a file with multi-line plain text. Optionally, text consisting of several columns separated by a specific cha

[issue41678] File-level, optionally external sorting

2020-08-31 Thread Platon workaccount
New submission from Platon workaccount : Feature request: a convenient sorter of whole files with the possibility of disk usage. Here's the syntax in my mind: shutil.sort(src, dst, headers=0, key=None, reverse=False, allow_disk_use=False) -- messages: 376157 nosy: platon.work