Sorting a text file alphabetically (Python)

Question

I would like to sort the file \'shopping.txt\' in alphabetical order

shopping = open(\'shopping.txt\')
line=shopping.readline()
while len(line)!=0:
    print         


        

Answer 1

Just to show something different instead of doing this in python, you can do this from a command line in Unix systems:

sort shopping.txt -o shopping.txt

and your file is sorted. Of course if you really want python for this: solution proposed by a lot of other people with reading file and sorting works fine