Great, this is very helpful. I'm new to Python, so hence the
inefficient or nonsensical code!
>
> 2) I would suggest using countries.sort(...) or sorted(countries,...),
> specifying cmp or key options too sort by region instead.
>
I don't understand how to do this. The countries.sort() lists
alphabetically and I tried to do a lambda x,y: cmp() type function,
but it doesn't sort correctly. Help with that?
For martyw's example, I don't need to get any sort of population
info. I'm actually getting the number of various types of documents.
So the entry is like this:
Argentina Food and Consumer Products Food Additives Color
Additives 1
Argentina Food and Consumer Products Food Additives Flavors
1
Argentina Food and Consumer Products Food Additives
General 6
Argentina Food and Consumer Products Food Additives labeling
1
Argentina Food and Consumer Products Food Additives Prohibited
Additives 1
Argentina Food and Consumer Products Food Contact Cellulose
1
Argentina Food and Consumer Products Food Contact Food
Packaging 1
Argentina Food and Consumer Products Food Contact Plastics
4
Argentina Food and Consumer Products Food Contact
Waxes 1
Belize
etc...
So I'll need to add up all the entries for Food Additives and Food
contacts, the other info like Color Additives isn't important.
So I will have an output like this
Food Additives Food Contact
Argentina 10 7
Belize
etc...
Thanks so much for the help!
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