Posted on by twitch1411

Need help with sorting data in an external file for CS NEA

leaderboard = open("scores.txt", "r")
scores = leaderboard.readlines()
rawscores = []
for lines in scores:
  details = lines.rstrip("\n") #removes empty space
  details = details.split(",") #splits apart data with a comma at each space
  details[0] = int(details[0])
  rawscores.append(details)
  rawscores.sort(key=lambda x: x[0], reverse=True) #sorts data from highest to lowest
  print("1. "+str(rawscores[0][0]),"done by",str(rawscores[0][1]))
  print("2. "+str(rawscores[1][0]),"done by",str(rawscores[1][1]))
  print("3. "+str(rawscores[2][0]),"done by",str(rawscores[2][1]))
  print("4. "+str(rawscores[3][0]),"done by",str(rawscores[3][1]))
  print("5. "+str(rawscores[4][0]),"done by",str(rawscores[4][1]))