sort file removing duplicates possible?
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You can find the 1st version of the script here.
In order to make it run there are two requirements, apart from the obvious one that you need to have python script plugin installed, which needs to be full-filled.
1.) be sue you have either installed the full package or download and unzip the TclTk into the NPP_INSTALL_DIR. Latest releases
2.) in order to make the “accent insensitive” feature working it is needed to install a python library called unidecode.
Unzip the .whl package into NPP_INSTALL_DIR\plugins\lib\To check both requirements, open the python script console and do the following commands
import Tkinter import unidecodeIf you don’t see any errors - done.
Usage is simple - run the script and check the different options.What should work is
- sort/delete duplicates on whole text (aka nothing is selected)
- sort/delete duplicates on vertically selected text
not supported yet:
- sort/delete duplicates on rectangular selection
Cheers
ClaudiaBtw. I spent most of the time creating this ugly window - so if someone wants to create a nicer gui - please go for it. I’m not really good in designing UIs.
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tkinter doesn’t work:
Python 2.7.6-notepad++ r2 (default, Apr 21 2014, 19:26:54) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)]
Initialisation took 219ms
Ready.import Tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<console>”, line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named Tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts\Sorter.py”, line 5, in <module>
import Tkinter as tk
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I found out something else, about that easylist file,
textfx’s case insensitive sort results in 69234 entries,
which is the same as ue’s result! -
Hello, @patrickdrd, and All,
Well, I must complete my previous post !
- Firstly, I realized that your list, below, is constantly updated ( Last modified: 02 Jun 2018 08:09 UTC )
https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt
So, today, this list contains
69917lines
- Secondly, when performing the regex S/R, we must consider, both, sensitive and insensitive search => The two search regexes :
Regex A :
(?-is)(^.+\R)\1+Regex B :
(?i-s)(^.+\R)\1+give, after sorting and removing duplicates with the regex, a file containing :
A
69852lines ( so,65lines deleted, in56matches )B
69817lines ( so,100lines deleted, in88matches )
- Thirdly, we, also, must take in account the possibility that the sort, itself, is run in a sensitive or insensitive way !
Natively, Notepad++ sort text, according to the Unicode value ( code-point ) of characters ( a kind of sensitive sort ! ) whereas some other text editors may consider these two case options, leading to different results !
For instance, using the RJ TextEd software, here are the differences with a simple list of three-characters strings ( 1 x ‘ABC’, 2 x ‘AbC’, 3 x ‘Abc’,1 x ‘DEF’, 3 x ‘DEf’, 2 x ‘aBC’, 3 x ‘aBc’, 3 x ‘dEF’ and 3 x ‘def’ )
•-----------------------•---------------------------• | with Notepad++ | with RJ TextEd | •---------------•-----------------------•---------------------------• | Before Sort | After UNICODE Sort | After SENSITIVE Sort | •---------------•-----------------------•---------------------------• | Abc | ABC | AbC | | Abc | AbC | aBC | | DEf | AbC | aBc | | AbC | Abc | Abc | | aBc | Abc | ABC | | dEF | Abc | aBC | | aBc | DEF | Abc | | DEf | DEf | AbC | | aBC | DEf | aBc | | def | DEf | aBc | | AbC | aBC | Abc | | def | aBC | DEf | | def | aBc | dEF | | ABC | aBc | dEF | | Abc | aBc | DEf | | DEF | dEF | dEF | | aBc | dEF | DEf | | dEF | dEF | def | | dEF | def | DEF | | DEf | def | def | | aBC | def | def | •---------------•-----------------------•---------------------------•So, it’s easy to understand that removing consecutive duplicates, after the sort, with the regexes above, will, necessarily, give results totally different, depending of the software used :-(
- Fourthly, sort may give different results, after being run several times, one after another. For instance, with RJ TextEd, running
6times the insensitive sort on the3character list above, I was left with3sets of data (4times, identical to the sensitive sort and two other lists !! Luckily, as for Notepad++, its Unicode sort always give identical results :-))
That’s why, @patrickdrd, it’s very difficult, finally, to compare results between different softwares, at each piece have its own behavior !
Cheers,
guy038
P.S. :
Here are the results of my tests :
1) With Notepad++ and RJ TextEd, using sensitive sort :
•---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• | with Notepad++ Features | •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------• | Before Sort | After Sensitive Sort | After Sensitive Regex + | After INsensitive Regex + | | | | Suppression Duplicates | Suppression Duplicates | •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------• | Abc | ABC | ABC | ABC | | Abc | AbC | AbC | DEF | | DEf | AbC | Abc | aBC | | AbC | Abc | DEF | dEF | | aBc | Abc | DEf | | | dEF | Abc | aBC | | | aBc | DEF | aBc | | | DEf | DEf | dEF | | | aBC | DEf | def | | | def | DEf | | | | AbC | aBC | | | | def | aBC | | | | def | aBc | | | | ABC | aBc | | | | Abc | aBc | | | | DEF | dEF | | | | aBc | dEF | | | | dEF | dEF | | | | dEF | def | | | | DEf | def | | | | aBC | def | | | •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------• •---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• | with RJ TextEd Features | •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------• | Before Sort | After Sensitive Sort | After Sensitive Regex + | After INsensitive Regex + | | | | Suppression Duplicates | Suppression Duplicates | •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------• | Abc | AbC | AbC | AbC | | Abc | aBC | aBC | DEf | | DEf | aBc | aBc | | | AbC | Abc | Abc | | | aBc | ABC | ABC | | | dEF | aBC | aBC | | | aBc | Abc | Abc | | | DEf | AbC | AbC | | | aBC | aBc | aBc | | | def | aBc | Abc | | | AbC | Abc | DEf | | | def | DEf | dEF | | | def | dEF | DEf | | | ABC | dEF | dEF | | | Abc | DEf | DEf | | | DEF | dEF | def | | | aBc | DEf | DEF | | | dEF | def | def | | | dEF | DEF | | | | DEf | def | | | | aBC | def | | | •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------•2) When running, several times, an insensitive sort, with RJ TextEd, I obtained
3different lists :-
The first one was identical to the table just above, which uses a sensitive sort
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The two others are listed below !
•---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• | with RJ TextEd Features | •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------• | Before Sort | After INsensitive Sort | After Sensitive Regex + | After INsensitive Regex + | | | | Suppression Duplicates | Suppression Duplicates | •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------• | Abc | ABC | ABC | ABC | | Abc | AbC | AbC | dEF | | DEf | aBC | aBC | | | AbC | aBC | aBc | | | aBc | aBc | Abc | | | dEF | Abc | AbC | | | aBc | AbC | aBc | | | DEf | aBc | Abc | | | aBC | Abc | aBc | | | def | Abc | dEF | | | AbC | aBc | DEf | | | def | dEF | def | | | def | dEF | dEF | | | ABC | DEf | DEF | | | Abc | DEf | def | | | DEF | DEf | | | | aBc | def | | | | dEF | def | | | | dEF | dEF | | | | DEf | DEF | | | | aBC | def | | | •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------• •---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• | with RJ TextEd Features | •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------• | Before Sort | After INsensitive Sort | After Sensitive Regex + | After INsensitive Regex + | | | | Suppression Duplicates | Suppression Duplicates | •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------• | Abc | ABC | ABC | ABC | | Abc | AbC | AbC | dEF | | DEf | aBC | aBC | | | AbC | aBC | aBc | | | aBc | aBc | Abc | | | dEF | Abc | aBc | | | aBc | aBc | AbC | | | DEf | AbC | Abc | | | aBC | Abc | aBc | | | def | Abc | dEF | | | AbC | aBc | DEf | | | def | dEF | def | | | def | dEF | DEF | | | ABC | dEF | DEf | | | Abc | DEf | | | | DEF | DEf | | | | aBc | def | | | | dEF | def | | | | dEF | def | | | | DEf | DEF | | | | aBC | DEf | | | •---------------•-------------------------•---------------------------•-----------------------------• -
Patrick, did you downlaod and unzip the TclTk into the
NPP_INSTALL_DIR ? (in your case into D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++)If so, can you run the following in the python script console
import sys; print '\n'.join(sys.path)and post the output?
Did the unidecode library installation work?
Cheers
Claudia -
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yes, unidecode works fine, import command works
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D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\Config\PythonScript\lib
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib\lib-tk
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\python27.zip
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\DLLs
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib\plat-win
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib\lib-tk
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The correct one is
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib\lib-tk
but those
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib\plat-win
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib\lib-tkare strange, could it be that you unzipped only part of tk packages into
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\ ?Can you check if you have the following files under D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib\lib-tk
Canvas.py
Dialog.py
FileDialog.py
FixTk.py
ScrolledText.py
SimpleDialog.py
Tix.py
tkColorChooser.py
tkCommonDialog.py
Tkconstants.py
Tkdnd.py
tkFileDialog.py
tkFont.py
Tkinter.py
tkMessageBox.py
tkSimpleDialog.py
ttk.py
turtle.pyYou might see additional files with extension pyc - that’s ok.
If you do have the files, delete the D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib directory.
If you don’t have the files under D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib\lib-tk but
within D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib then cut D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib and paste it into
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\Cheers
Claudia -
I can’t find either D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib\lib-tk or D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\lib folder in explorer!
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so how did you install Tcl/Tk libraries?
Cheers
Claudia -
I extracted the zip of course, the folder you say is in:
d:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib\tcl\lib-tk\both in zip file and my explorer!
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I’ve just read guy038’s post and I’m more confused :S
I downloaded the file again and now it’s Last modified: 02 Jun 2018 16:00 UTC
and 69930 results,
sorting with insensitive (ue and textfx) yields 69284 and the output should be similar,
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the easylist file is adblocker file it will change consistently.
Regarding the Tcl/Tk installation - you should have unzipped it into
D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\ directory.The zip contains the complete folder hierachy - as you see on the left side (archive tree)
if you did this you normally got a message saying that the plugins folder already exists and
if you want it to overwrite -> you should have answered this with yes, didn’t you?Cheers
Claudia -
yep, that’s what I got https://imgur.com/a/xNQB5Gn
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took some time to understand the difference.
You do have
…\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib\tcl\lib-tk
where I do have
…\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib\lib-tkso the error makes sense as it can’t be found in …\lib\lib-tk
You could try to add the following to your user startup.py script
import sys sys.path.append(r'D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib\tcl\lib-tk')and restart npp and do another import Tkinter test.
Cheers
Claudia -
ok thanks, first thing tomorrow with the morning coffee
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Hi, @patrickdrd, and All,
Just for info, doing again my tests ( Last modified: 02 Jun 2018 17:23 UTC ) with N++ sort, followed by the regex S/R, I obtained :
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Original file :
69931lines -
With regex A ( sensitive ) :
69852lines ( so,65lines deleted, in56matches ) -
With regex B ( insensitive ) :
69817lines ( so,100lines deleted, in88matches ) -
With TextFX sort, at column
1, with the option Sort outputs only UNIQUE (at column) lines, it produced a69285lines file ( so,646lines deleted )
Now, @patrickdrd, I don’t want you to be confused, with my explanations ! I just pointed out the fact that depending of the different ways and softwares, used to remove duplicates lines, you must expect different results ! My solution using first, N++ sort and , secondly, a regex S/R may not give the correct results, because it’s based on comparing consecutive lines, previously sorted !
And , probably, the TextFX plugin, ( whose I don’t know the sort logic ! ) other software, and the last sorter.py script, from @claudia-frank, will produce best results :-))
Finally, I’m thinking that a correct script to delete duplicates lines should not rely on any sort and just compares two individual lines, at a time ! In other words, any line should simply be compared, successively, with each other line of the file !
Cheers,
guy038
P.S. :
BTW, I confirm that the TextFX sort tool, as N++ sort, seems stable : after running it
5times, the ouput files, produced , are totally identical :-) -
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@Claudia-Frank still doesn’t work:
File “<console>”, line 1, in <module>
File “D:\Utilities\PortableApps\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib\tcl\lib-tk\Tkinter.py”, line 39, in <module>
import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ImportError: No module named _tkinter
