I mean Python's analog of sort [-k x.y] table.txt from GNU Coreutils.

>> What do you refer when you say "sorting a file"?

Sorting a file with multi-line plain text. Optionally, text consisting of
several columns separated by a specific character.

>> What does "key" act upon? Strings representing the lines in the file?

This is a sort rule argument similar to that of the existing in-memory
sort()/sorted() method.

>> For allow_disk_use=False, what's the difference between opening the
file, reading the lines, using sort() and writing the contents?

If False, there is no difference.

вт, 1 сент. 2020 г. в 00:18, Pablo Galindo Salgado <report@bugs.python.org>:

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> Pablo Galindo Salgado <pablogsal@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> What do you refer when you say "sorting a file"?
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> What does "key" act upon? Strings representing the lines in the file?
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> For allow_disk_use=False, what's the difference between opening the file,
> reading the lines, using sort() and writing the contents?
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