Kent Johnson wrote: >>and i would sort this files by the 2 last letters, so: > > The sort() method of a mutable sequence is very powerful. Docs for it are > here: > http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-mutable.html > > The key= parameter of sort() allows you to provide a function which, given a > member of the sequence > being sorted, returns the sort key for that item. In your case you can define > a simple helper > function that returns the last two characters of a string: > > def lastTwoChars(s): > return s[-2:] > > then sort like this: > > dir_locales = "/usr/share/i18n/locales/" > > files = glob.glob(os.path.join(dir_locales, "*_[A-Z][A-Z]")) > files.sort(key=lastTwoChars) # Note: NOT key=lastTwoChars() > > for line in fileinput.input(files): > ... >
Thanks for this information. I get: :: files.sort(key=lastTwoChars) TypeError: sort() takes no keyword arguments :: Could it be by the Python version? I have Python 2.3.5 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
