hi I have a file with columns delimited by '~' like this: 1SOME STRING ~ABC~12311232432D~20060401~00000000 2SOME STRING ~DEF~13534534543C~20060401~00000000 3SOME STRING ~ACD~14353453554G~20060401~00000000
..... What is the pythonic way to sort this type of structured text file? Say i want to sort by 2nd column , ie ABC, ACD,DEF ? so that it becomes 1SOME STRING ~ABC~12311232432D~20060401~00000000 3SOME STRING ~ACD~14353453554G~20060401~00000000 2SOME STRING ~DEF~13534534543C~20060401~00000000 ? I know for a start, that i have to split on '~', then append all the second columns into a list, then sort the list using sort(), but i am stuck with how to get the rest of the corresponding columns after the sort.... thanks... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
