Sort Non English Words in Text File Using Python

Code to sort your non English dictionary text file.

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Here, we are going to sort text file that contains words and we will use it later as our dictionary. For english language we can simply use:

list=['dog','cat','ant']
for element in sorted(list):    
    print(element)

But if want to sort other language words just sorted()will not work. Try code below and make changes according to your language requirements.

file=open('your_text_file_containing_words.txt', encoding='utf-8').read().split() 
#Your Language Alphabets Set(Here Urdu Alphabets Used)letters="آأابپتٹثجچحخدڈذرڑزژسشصضطظعغفقکگلمنںوؤہۂۃھءیئےۓ" 
#Assign Integer to Each Character 
d={i:letters.index(i) for i in letters} 
#Sorted Function Based on First Character and Store Sorted Version in a List
sorted_list=sorted(file, key= lambda x: d[x[0]] if x[0] in d.keys() else float('inf')) 
#Store List Elements in new Text File
sorted_file = open("New_Text_File_To Store_Sorted_Words.txt", "w")
for element in sorted_list:   
    sorted_file.write(element + "\n")
sorted_file.close()

In my case, text file containing words looks like this:

بجلی
کے
تار
بھی
آگ
کی
لپیٹ
میں
آنے
سے
شارٹ

After sorting:

آگ
آنے
بجلی
بھی
تار
سے
شارٹ
کے
کی
لپیٹ
میں

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