Re: [Tlf-devel] New callmaster and cty.dat files

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi Ervin,

Am Sun, 17 Nov 2013 18:40:45 +0100
schrieb Ervin Hegedüs - HA2OS <address@hidden>:

> Hello Thomas,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 03:09:18PM +0100, Thomas Beierlein wrote:
> > Hi Ervin,
> > 
> > just had a look into it. Thanks for preparing.
> > 
> > Please see my comment on the pull request.
> 
> I've closed the pull request,

Just saw it. I will pick up both files to tlf's master branch.

> > As the call master database has a different sorting order as
> > before can you please give me some more information about how you
> > processed it?
> 
> hmm... what's the expected order?
> 
> Here is how I processed:
> - collect callsigns sets from cqww.com and cqwpx.com (on
>   cqwpx.com site I just found the last contest loglist)
> - created the union of all set, and made a distinct set
> - merged with original callmaster into the new list, which is
>   unordered
> - all of above I've used Python (I'm a big Python fan), and to
>   order the new merged list, I've used the Python's built-in
>   sort() function. 
>   It's a simply sort function, based on ascii table:
>   http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html
>   (see the list.sort() and an example after list.reverse())

Ok, seems there are different sorting orders outside. Your sort oder
ist the same as at http://www.supercheckpartial.com/MASTER.SCP

The old one had the letters coming before the numbers. But I think that
has is ok for us.

> 
> It's just a simple callmaster.sort(), then I wrote it to a file.
> 
> What's the problem? How could I help?

No problem at all. I just wondered why both files differed in ordering.


73, de Tom DL1JBE.

> 
> 
> 73,
> 
> 
> Ervin
> HA2OS
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