On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:54:32 +0000, kj wrote: > I'm downloading some very large tables from a remote site. I want to > sort these tables in a particular way before saving them to disk. In > the past I found that the most efficient way to do this was to > piggy-back on Unix's highly optimized sort command. So, from within a > Perl script, I'd create a pipe handle through sort and then just print > the data through that handle: > > open my $out, "|$sort -t '\t' -k1,1 -k2,2 -u > $out_file" or die $!; > print $out $_ for @data; > > But that's distinctly Perlish, and I'm wondering what's the "Python Way" > to do this. > > TIA! > > kynn
os.system and os.popen are much like what you'd find in C. The subprocess module is more specific to python, and is a little more complicated but more powerful. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
