Steve Holden wrote:
> Dan Sommers wrote:
> > On 27 Sep 2005 19:01:38 -0700,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >
> >>with the binary stuff out of the way, what i have is this string data:
> >
> >
> >>20050922 # date line
> >>mike
> >>mike's message...
> >>20040825 # date line
> >>jeremy
> >>jeremy
Magnus Lycka wrote:
> Why? It seems you are trying to use a string as some kind of container,
> and Python has those in the box. Just use a list of tuples, rather than
> a list of strings. That will work fine for .sort(), and it's much more
> convenient to access your data. Using the typical tool
Thank you very much.
I'll look into this immediately.
I edited my code earlier and came up with stringing the groups
(200501202010, sender, message_string) into one string delimited by
'%%%'.
I could then sort the messages with the date string at the beginning as
the one being sorted with the b
Hello guys,
I made a script that extracts strings from a binary file. It works.
My next problem is sorting those strings.
Output is like:
snip
200501221530
John
*** long string here ***
200504151625
Clyde
*** clyde's long string here ***
200503130935
Jeremy
*** jeremy string here **
