From b7878d09e5d360da4eda65cdf6f51376c234af3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:17:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Modernize the code a bit:    use re module    use .split()
 string method

Doesn't use 'for line in sys.stdin'; that ends up changing its interactive
behaviour.
---
 Demo/comparisons/sortingtest.py | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Demo/comparisons/sortingtest.py b/Demo/comparisons/sortingtest.py
index 8fe2bbb7933..cabf6260d9c 100755
--- a/Demo/comparisons/sortingtest.py
+++ b/Demo/comparisons/sortingtest.py
@@ -23,15 +23,16 @@
 # - Outputs the sorted fields with exactly one space between them
 # - Handles blank input lines correctly
 
-import regex
+import re
 import string
 import sys
 
 def main():
-    prog = regex.compile('^\(.*\)=\([-+]?[0-9]+\)')
+    prog = re.compile('^(.*)=([-+]?[0-9]+)')
     def makekey(item, prog=prog):
-        if prog.match(item) >= 0:
-            var, num = prog.group(1, 2)
+        match = prog.match(item)
+        if match:
+            var, num = match.group(1, 2)
             return string.atoi(num), var
         else:
             # Bad input -- pretend it's a var with value 0
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ def main():
         line = sys.stdin.readline()
         if not line:
             break
-        items = string.split(line)
+        items = line.split()
         items = map(makekey, items)
         items.sort()
         for num, var in items: