Converting a string to a list with sorting in lexicographic order

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📁 List, string, Advanced Python Topics

How to convert a string consisting of words separated by spaces into a list, and sort the resulting list in lexicographic order?

Given a string of words separated by spaces:

s = 'abc a bCd bC AbC BC BCD bcd ABC'

convert it to a list, with the separator "space":

a = s.split(' ')

we get:

['abc', 'a', 'bCd', 'bC', 'AbC', 'BC', 'BCD', 'bcd', 'ABC']

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answer@mail.ru · Answer 1

A file is simply a sequence of bytes, among which there are line breaks. That is, if you are working with a file:

line 1line 2line 3

...then in reality the disk contains a sequence of bytes:

line 1␊line 2␊line 3

You can, without recalculating/rewriting the entire file, both inside a line and between lines, for example:

line 1␊XXXXXXXXXXXline 3

then, when viewing the file line by line, you will see:

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