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[Glyph Lefkowitz]

erik_wilsher at my-deja.com writes:

> Having read this, and also noticed a request for
> some sort of "unique" flag for lists in the
> python todo-list, I added a sortlist class to my
> bisect module.
> 
> Using this class we can reduce the above program
> to:
> 
> --------
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> "uniq.py --Read lines from input file, and write
> sorted output to file"
> 
> import fileinput,bisect,sys
> 
> uniq=bisect.sortlist(fileinput.input(sys.argv[1]))
> open(sys.argv[2],'w').writelines(uniq.list())
> --------

Okay; I don't have this modified bisect.py, so I can't test this, but
here goes: (documentation omitted ... who needs documentation when
you're talking about perl? :-P)

---
import fileinput,bisect,sys
open(sys.argv[2],'w').writelines(bisect.sortlist(fileinput.input(sys.argv[1])).list())
---

So there.  Two lines of python for the whole thing. :-)

and-i-didn't-even-have-to-make-it-more-than-80-characters-long-'ly y'rs,


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