UNIX-style sort in Python?

[Alex Martelli]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:

> On 2004-10-18, Kotlin Sam <xavier_onasis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > For a while at least I have to work in Windows rather than UNIX, which
> > is more familiar. I'm trying to do with Python some of the things that
> > I've done for years in shell, in particular, sort. The shell sort is
> > pretty easy to use:
> 
> Sounds like you need to install Cygwin so you have a real bash
> shell and all of the normal shell utilities.

An excellent piece of advice.  Cygwin has occasionally save my sanity in
the past when the weakness of Windows' cmd.exe was getting to me...!-)


Alex