Looking for a more efficient way to reorganize a massive CSV in Python

Question

I\'ve been working on a problem where I have data from a large output .txt file, and now have to parse and reorganize certain values in the the form of a .csv.

I\'ve

Answer 1

You can try the UNIX sort utility:

sort -n -s -t, -k1,1 infile.csv > outfile.csv

-t sets the delimiter and -k sets the sort key. -s stabilizes the sort, and -n uses numeric comparison.