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Sort lines by length
Write a Python program to sort the lines of a file by their length.
Output
x short medium line a much longer line here
Approach
sorted(lines, key=len).
Solution
with open("story.txt", "w") as f: f.write("medium line\nx\na much longer line here\nshort\n") with open("story.txt") as f: lines = f.read().splitlines()for line in sorted(lines, key=len): print(line)Output
x short medium line a much longer line here
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