UNIX-style sort in Python?

[Tuure Laurinolli]

Kotlin Sam wrote:
> For a while at least I have to work in Windows rather than UNIX, which 
> is more familiar. I'm trying to do with Python some of the things that 
> I've done for years in shell, in particular, sort. The shell sort is 
> pretty easy to use:

Why don't you just install the UNIX utils on windows? There are native 
ports of most of them at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/