How Do I Sort A Text File Numerically Highest To Lowest?

So i have a text file containing names,scores and class in there e.g. = ('test', ' in class', '1', ' has got a score of', 1) How can i sort it (text file) so that it sorts it nume

Solution 1:

You can use the sorted() function as

sorted_lines = sorted(lines, key = lambda x : x[4] )

Example

>>> lines = [ ('test', ' in class', '1', ' has got a score of', 1),
            ('test', ' in class', '4', ' has got a score of', 4),
            ('test', ' in class', '5', ' has got a score of', 5),
            ('test', ' in class', '3', ' has got a score of', 3),
            ('test', ' in class', '2', ' has got a score of', 2) ]

>>> sorted_lines = sorted(lines, key = lambda x : x[4] )
>>> soted_lines
('test', ' in class', '1', ' has got a score of', 1)
('test', ' in class', '2', ' has got a score of', 2)
('test', ' in class', '3', ' has got a score of', 3)
('test', ' in class', '4', ' has got a score of', 4)
('test', ' in class', '5', ' has got a score of', 5)

Solution 2:

First, read the file into a list of lists:

withopen(filepath, 'r') as file:
    list = []
    for line in file:
        list.append(line[1:-1].split(","))

Now you have something like this:

list == [['test', ' in class', '1', ' has got a score of', 3],
         ['test', ' in class', '1', ' has got a score of', 5],
         ['test', ' in class', '1', ' has got a score of', 1],
         ['test', ' in class', '1', ' has got a score of', 2]]

Then sort lists inside the list:

list.sort(key=lambda x: int(x[4]))

This results in this sorted list:

list = [['test', ' in class', '1', ' has got a score of', 1],
        ['test', ' in class', '1', ' has got a score of', 2],
        ['test', ' in class', '1', ' has got a score of', 3],
        ['test', ' in class', '1', ' has got a score of', 5]]