sorting a file

[Wojtek Walczak]

Dnia 5 Dec 2002 08:08:16 -0800, Romualdo napisał(a):
> Does anybody could tell me how the lines above would look like in
> python?
It's not exactly what you want, but should be helpful.
Our file (~/plik):
---
/home/gminick/text /home/gminick/text.txt
/home/gminick/blah /home/gminick/blah.txt
---

Our script:
---
import re, os

w = open("plik")

a = w.readline()
while a:
   b = re.search("([\w\/\.]+)\s+([\w\/\.]+)", a)
   if b:
      b = b.groups()
      os.system("mv %s %s" % (b[0], b[1]))
   a = w.readline()
---

It reads lines from file "plik" and searching for two path(/file)names,
if found it moves a file from a name found in first field, to that found
in second.
So, here we're moving two files: text to text.txt and blah to blah.txt.
HTH.

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