sorting pathnames by basename

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:17:43 EDT
Bill Freeman said:

>pll at lanminds.com writes:
>
> > >Suggestions for improvement welcome.
> > 
> > Use perl.
> > -- 
>
>Use Python

Bill,

[ Note:  this is not intended as the beginning of a flame-fest! ]

I'm curious what Python has to offer in this area.  I know nothing 
about the language really, and am quite curious about it.  The reason 
I offered the suggestion of Perl isn't because it's my favorite 
language, but because the language itself was developed to solve the 
exact type of text-munging problem mod was encountering.

Is Python also a "text-munging" type language aimed at sysadmin type
problems?  Was it too, specifically designed to pick up where awk
and sed fell short?

Thanks,
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
--
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   but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away.

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