Daniel wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:03:17 +0300, leegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> say I have a text file: >> >> zz3 uaa4a ss 7 uu >> zz 3 zzzz66 ppazz9 >> aaaaaaaaa00000zz0 >> >> I want to sort the text file. I want the key to be the number after >> the two "zz". Or I guess a string of two zz then a number....So >> that's 3, 9, 0 >> >> I'm trying to say that I want to sort lines in a file based on a >> regular expression. How could I do that in Python? I'm limited to >> Python 2.1, I can't add any 2nd party newer tools. >> >> Thanks >> Lee G. >> > > Shouldn't it be 3, 6, 9, 0
I'm guessing that the 6 comes after 4 z's and not 2 z's in line 2 so it is ignored. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
