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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: Whaddaya think?
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:56:01 +0200
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On 16/06/2024 17:09, DFS wrote:
> 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))
> 

nums = sorted(map(int, open('data.txt', 'r').read().split()))

But you'll learn more doing it with C :-)  And it's nice to see someone 
starting on-topic threads here.