Hi,
I have a file of records of 4 fields each.
Each field is separated by a semicolon. That is
Filed1;Ffield2; Field3;Field4
But there may be also empty records such as
;;;;
(only semicolons).
For sorting I used
############### ##
lines = file('Config.tx t').readlines() # a file I want to sort
lines.sort()
ff=open('Config Sorted.txt','w' )# sorted file
ff.writelines(l ines)
ff.close()
###############
It was sorted but empty records were first. I need them to be last(at
the end of the file). How can I do that?
Thanks for help
Lad 5 1410
Lad wrote: Hi, I have a file of records of 4 fields each. Each field is separated by a semicolon. That is
Filed1;Ffield2; Field3;Field4
But there may be also empty records such as ;;;; (only semicolons).
For sorting I used ############### ## lines = file('Config.tx t').readlines() # a file I want to sort lines.sort() ff=open('Config Sorted.txt','w' )# sorted file ff.writelines(l ines) ff.close() ############### It was sorted but empty records were first. I need them to be last(at the end of the file). How can I do that?
Thanks for help Lad
Lad,
The sort call can have a function name as an arg. You
could do:
def mycompare(s1,s2 ):
#return -1 to put s1's at front; 1 to put s1's at back; 0 for a tie
#if s1==";;;;" and s2<>";;;;": return 1
lines.sort(myco mpare)
wes
wes weston <ww*****@att.ne t> writes: Lad wrote: Hi, I have a file of records of 4 fields each. Each field is separated by a semicolon. That is
Filed1;Ffield2; Field3;Field4
But there may be also empty records such as ;;;; (only semicolons).
For sorting I used ############### ## lines = file('Config.tx t').readlines() # a file I want to sort lines.sort() ff=open('Config Sorted.txt','w' )# sorted file ff.writelines(l ines) ff.close() ############### It was sorted but empty records were first. I need them to be last(at the end of the file). How can I do that?
Thanks for help Lad
Lad, The sort call can have a function name as an arg. You could do:
def mycompare(s1,s2 ): #return -1 to put s1's at front; 1 to put s1's at back; 0 for a tie #if s1==";;;;" and s2<>";;;;": return 1
lines.sort(myc ompare)
I can't help feeling that the OP might have really wanted to be sorting on
individual fields rather than whole lines. In which case I would think of
doing a line.split(';') on each line before sorting. It would still need
either to use a function to make empty fields go later or alternatively use
DSU (google!) and convert '' to say '~' and back again. This also solves the
problem of what to expect when only some of the fields are blank rather than
all of them.
Eddie
wes weston <ww*****@att.ne t> wrote in message news:<0g******* ************@bg tnsc05-news.ops.worldn et.att.net>... Lad wrote: Hi, I have a file of records of 4 fields each. Each field is separated by a semicolon. That is
Filed1;Ffield2; Field3;Field4
But there may be also empty records such as ;;;; (only semicolons).
For sorting I used ############### ## lines = file('Config.tx t').readlines() # a file I want to sort lines.sort() ff=open('Config Sorted.txt','w' )# sorted file ff.writelines(l ines) ff.close() ############### It was sorted but empty records were first. I need them to be last(at the end of the file). How can I do that?
Thanks for help Lad
Lad, The sort call can have a function name as an arg. You could do:
def mycompare(s1,s2 ): #return -1 to put s1's at front; 1 to put s1's at back; 0 for a tie #if s1==";;;;" and s2<>";;;;": return 1
lines.sort(myco mpare)
Wes,
Thank you for reply. But I do not understand mycompare function. Can
you please explain to me how it should work? Thanks
LAd
Lad wrote: wes weston <ww*****@att.ne t> wrote in message news:<0g******* ************@bg tnsc05-news.ops.worldn et.att.net>... Lad wrote: > Hi, > I have a file of records of 4 fields each. > Each field is separated by a semicolon. That is > > Filed1;Ffield2; Field3;Field4 > > But there may be also empty records such as > ;;;; > (only semicolons). > > For sorting I used > ############### ## > lines = file('Config.tx t').readlines() # a file I want to sort > lines.sort() > ff=open('Config Sorted.txt','w' )# sorted file > ff.writelines(l ines) > ff.close() > ############### > It was sorted but empty records were first. I need them to be last(at > the end of the file). How can I do that? > > Thanks for help > Lad
Lad, The sort call can have a function name as an arg. You could do:
def mycompare(s1,s2 ): #return -1 to put s1's at front; 1 to put s1's at back; 0 for a tie #if s1==";;;;" and s2<>";;;;": return 1
lines.sort(myco mpare) Wes, Thank you for reply. But I do not understand mycompare function. Can you please explain to me how it should work? Thanks
compare(a, b) is just a function for comparing two items/lines. I must
return -1 if a<b, +1 if a>b, and 0 if a==b. For example the following
compare moves the ";;;;" records to the end and keeps the order of others
unaffected: items = [";;;;", ";a;b;;", ";b;a;;", "a;b;c;d;e" , "a;;;d;e"] def compare(a, b):
.... return cmp(a == ";;;;", b == ";;;;") or cmp(a, b)
.... items.sort(comp are) items
[';a;b;;', ';b;a;;', 'a;;;d;e', 'a;b;c;d;e', ';;;;']
As Eddie Corns pointed out, you left some doubt whether that is really what
you want. Here is a more complex compare() that handles the lines as
columns split by ";" and puts empty columns last in the sorting order:
def key(row):
.... return [(not col, col) for col in row.split(";")]
.... def compare(a, b):
.... return cmp(key(a), key(b))
.... items.sort(comp are) items
['a;b;c;d;e', 'a;;;d;e', ';a;b;;', ';b;a;;', ';;;;']
If you are on Python 2.4, you don't need the compare() detour and can use
key() directly:
items.sort(key= key) items
['a;b;c;d;e', 'a;;;d;e', ';a;b;;', ';b;a;;', ';;;;']
Finally, the ";;;;" lines don't seem to carry any information - why not
filter them out completely?
items = [line[:-1] for line in file("cfg.txt", "U") if line != ";;;;\n"]
Peter
Peter Otten <__*******@web. de> wrote in message news:<co******* ******@news.t-online.com>... Lad wrote:
wes weston <ww*****@att.ne t> wrote in message news:<0g******* ************@bg tnsc05-news.ops.worldn et.att.net>... Lad wrote: > Hi, > I have a file of records of 4 fields each. > Each field is separated by a semicolon. That is > > Filed1;Ffield2; Field3;Field4 > > But there may be also empty records such as > ;;;; > (only semicolons). > > For sorting I used > ############### ## > lines = file('Config.tx t').readlines() # a file I want to sort > lines.sort() > ff=open('Config Sorted.txt','w' )# sorted file > ff.writelines(l ines) > ff.close() > ############### > It was sorted but empty records were first. I need them to be last(at > the end of the file). How can I do that? > > Thanks for help > Lad
Lad, The sort call can have a function name as an arg. You could do:
def mycompare(s1,s2 ): #return -1 to put s1's at front; 1 to put s1's at back; 0 for a tie #if s1==";;;;" and s2<>";;;;": return 1
lines.sort(myco mpare) Wes, Thank you for reply. But I do not understand mycompare function. Can you please explain to me how it should work? Thanks
compare(a, b) is just a function for comparing two items/lines. I must return -1 if a<b, +1 if a>b, and 0 if a==b. For example the following compare moves the ";;;;" records to the end and keeps the order of others unaffected:
items = [";;;;", ";a;b;;", ";b;a;;", "a;b;c;d;e" , "a;;;d;e"] def compare(a, b): ... return cmp(a == ";;;;", b == ";;;;") or cmp(a, b) ... items.sort(comp are) items
[';a;b;;', ';b;a;;', 'a;;;d;e', 'a;b;c;d;e', ';;;;']
Petr,
thank you for help and explanation.
It works
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