Re: sort

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 14:25, Steve Juranich wrote:
> Here's a chunk of Python code that should do the trick.
> 
> lines = open(filename).readlines()
> 
> line_dict = {}
> for line in lines:
> 	if line not in line_dict.keys():
> 		print line
> 	line_dict[line] = 1
> 
> I haven't debugged/tested this.  YMMV.

That'll work, but imagine the performance when there are, say,
75,000 lines, each 50 bytes...

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