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Let’s see if this improves your output in any way. Make the necessary amendments to your code and
run it.
Here’s the updates
to the code. The data is not at all
But look at THIS!
sorted…which is, like,
weird.
Look at this: 2-55 is
coming BEFORE 2.18…now
that is weird. Hey, it looks like your data values are
not uniform. Is the problem with all those
periods, dashes, and colons?
Yes. The minute and seconds separators are
confusing Python’s sorting technology.
When recording his athletes’ times in each of their files, Coach
Kelly sometimes used a different character to separate minutes
from seconds. It looks like you need to fix your data.
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