Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism

[Tim Chase]

On 07/17/12 12:24, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 7/17/2012 8:01 AM, Lipska the Kat wrote:
>> In bash this is laughably trivial
>>
>> sort -nr $1 | head -${2:-10}
> 
> Won't sort work alphabetically and leave the following as is?
> 
> 1\talpha
> 11\tbeta
> 2\tgamma

Only if Lipska had omitted the "-n" which tells sort to treat
numbers like numbers.

For Lipska, you'd want to look into the "csv" module for parsing the
file easily (specifying '\t' as the delimiter).  You can then sort
and crop as-is, or you can use heapq.nsmallest()

-tkc