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[J. Mwebaze]

I noticed the error in code please ignore this post..

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:29 PM, J. Mwebaze <jmwebaze at gmail.com> wrote:

> sorry see, corrected code
>
>
> for filename in txtfiles:
>    temp=[]
>    f=open(filename)
>    for line in f.readlines():
>      line = line.strip()
>      line=line.split()
>      temp.append((parser.parse(line[0]), float(line[1])))
>    temp=sorted(temp)
>    with open(filename.strip('.txt')+ '.sorted', 'wb') as p:
>         for i, j in temp:
>            p.write('%s %s\n' %(str(i),j))
>
>
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:26 PM, J. Mwebaze <jmwebaze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have attached one of the files, try to sort and let me know the
>> results.  Kindly sort by date. ooops - am told the file exceed 25M.
>>
>> below is the code
>>
>> import glob
>> txtfiles =glob.glob('*.txt')
>> import dateutil.parser as parser
>>
>>
>> for filename in txtfiles:
>>    temp=[]
>>    f=open(filename)
>>    for line in f.readlines():
>>      line = line.strip()
>>      line=line.split()
>>      temp.append((parser.parse(line[0]), float(line[1])))
>>    temp=sorted(temp)
>>    with open(filename.strip('.txt')+ '.sorted', 'wb') as p:
>>         for i, j in temp:
>>            p.write('%s %s\n' %(str(i),j))
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:11 PM, J. Mwebaze <jmwebaze at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > [ (datatime, int) ] * 1172026
>>>
>>> I can't duplicate slowness. It finishes fairly quickly here. Maybe you
>>> could try posting specific code? It might be something else that is
>>> making your program take forever.
>>>
>>> >>> x = [(datetime.datetime.now() +
>>> datetime.timedelta(random.getrandbits(10)), random.getrandbits(32)) for _
>>> in xrange(1172026)]
>>> >>> random.shuffle(x)
>>> >>> x.sort()
>>> >>>
>>>
>>> -- Devin
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> |  skype: mwebazej | URL: www.astro.rug.nl/~jmwebaze
>>
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>>
>>
>
>
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> |  skype: mwebazej | URL: www.astro.rug.nl/~jmwebaze
>
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>
>


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