example script to sort a file for seqanswers user marqudiego

sort_example.py

import sys


in_file = sys.argv[1]

in_data = open(in_file, 'rU')

data_list = []

# separate and organize the data into fields
for line in in_data:
    data_list.append([x.strip() for x in line.strip('\n').split('=')])

# convert the number parts to actual numbers vs strings
for each in data_list:
    each[1] = float(each[1])


data_list.sort(key=lambda x: x[1])

for each in data_list:
    print '%s = %s' % (each[0],each[1])