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On 6/16/2024 12:44 AM, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 16.06.2024 06:17, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>
>> For the original problem, where the input consists of digits and
>> whitespace, you could read a character at a time and accumulate the
>> value of each number.  (You probably want to handle leading signs as
>> well, which isn't difficult.)
> 
> Yes. Been there, done that. Sometimes it's good enough to go back
> to the roots if higher-level functions are imperfect or quirky.
> 
>> That is admittedly reinventing the
>> wheel, but the existing wheels aren't entirely round.  You still
>> have to dynamically allocate the array of ints, assuming you need
>> to store all of them rather than processing each value as it's read.
> 
> A subclass of tasks can certainly process data on the fly but for
> the general solution there should be a convenient way to handle it.
> 
> I still prefer higher-level languages that take the burden from me.

nums = []
with open('data.txt','r') as f:
	for nbr in f.read().split():
		nums.append(int(nbr))
	print(*sorted(nums))