sorting contacts alphabetically, sorted by surname

[Marie Hughes]

HI
 
I have to write a program that contains a text file in the following format:
 
Academic            Position                Room Ext.       Email    Prof Marie Maguire  Head of School      M9002 0000   lp.muire at ulioooor.ac.uk
 
And produce a output file where conatcts are sorted alphabetically- sorted by surname.
 
Has anyone any ideas.
 
_________________________________________________________________
Get free emoticon packs and customisation from Windows Live. 
http://www.pimpmylive.co.uk
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20071116/f36d1570/attachment.html>