Alphabetizing?

[mackstann]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:27:52PM -0400, tjland at iserv.net wrote:
> Ok, im trying to creat a small simple program that alphabetizes user
> inputed words. I thought why not just create a def that splits all the
> words down into char's then take the first char and crosscheck it with all
> lowercase letters. Then find its position and return the results to the
> user in order or 1-26! But this takes a long time and the code gets
> confusing. Any suggestion? Thanx in advance!

Put them in a list and sort them?

>>> text = "hello how are you?  i'm just fine, blah blah."
>>> l = text.split()
>>> l
['hello', 'how', 'are', 'you?', "i'm", 'just', 'fine,', 'blah', 'blah.']
>>> l.sort()
>>> l
['are', 'blah', 'blah.', 'fine,', 'hello', 'how', "i'm", 'just', 'you?']


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