Sort lines in a plain text file alphanumerically

[alex23]

On 6/08/2013 1:12 PM, Joshua Landau wrote:
> Because it's bad to open files without a with unless you know what
> you're doing, use a with:
>
>      with open('/home/collier/pytest/__sort.TXT') as file:
>          sorted(file, key=str.casefold, reverse=True)

Shouldn't that be:

     with open('/home/collier/pytest/__sort.TXT') as file:
         data = file.readlines()
         sorted(data, key=str.casefold, reverse=True)

I'm tempted to say "HINT #5: don't provide a solution without testing it 
first" but that would be pretty obnoxious.