[Tutor] string list in alphabetical!

[Sammy Cornet]

Thank you for help Steven! I intend to correct it. But also I would like to know if I wrote the correctly in order to the output that I'm looking for?



On Oct 20, 2013, at 19:22, "Sammy Cornet" <corsam28 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I'm using python 2.7.5 version and I'm trying to write a program related to a file named unsorted_fruits.txt contains a list of 26 fruits, each one with a name that begins with a different letter of the alphabet. My program's goal is to read in the fruits from the file unsorted_fruits.txt and writes them out in alphabetical order to a file named sorted_fruits.txt while I'm using while loop
> 
> For this assignment you must incorporate the use of a list, for loop and / or while loop.
> 
> so here is what I have on my script:
> 
> 
> 
> infile = open('Desktop/unsorted_fruits.docx' ,"r")
> 
> outfile = open('Desktop/sorted_fruits.docx', 'w')
> 
> 
> 
> def find():
> 
>     index = 0
> 
>     while index < 26:
> 
>         list < 26
> 
>         list = ["a", "b", "c", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n" "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "z", "y", "z"]
> 
>         if index[0] == list[0]:
> 
>             infile = list + 1
> 
>             print infile
> 
>         index += 1
> 
>     infile.close() 
> 
>     outfile.close() 
> 
> 
> And here is my output:
> 
> Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:43:36) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
> >>> ================================ RESTART ================================
> >>> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "F:/7.real.py", line 1, in <module>
>     infile = open('Desktop/unsorted_fruits.docx' ,"r")
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Desktop/unsorted_fruits.docx'
> >>> 
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if I write the program correctly, but I can't get my file wich is on my desktop to the program. CAn someone help me please?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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