On 17/07/12 18:24, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 7/17/2012 8:01 AM, Lipska the Kat wrote:
On 17/07/12 09:45, Lipska the Kat wrote:
Pythoners
Python 2.7.3
Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS
I've been taking a brief look at Python.
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Well I've set myself a task.
I have a text file containing a list of stock items
each line contains the number in stock followed by a tab followed by the
name of the item. I need to implement something that reads in the text
file and outputs the stock list in ascending or descending order of
quantity.
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In bash this is laughably trivial
sort -nr $1 | head -${2:-10}
Won't sort work alphabetically and leave the following as is?
1\talpha
11\tbeta
2\tgamma
The -n option tells sort to interpret the first word on a line as a
number r means sort in descending order. It works fine. I also added
another feature not in the specification that allows the input of a
number of lines to print ...
well on the way to being bloatware I guess ;-)
Lipska
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