title: python 2.4 sorting a text file by specific column
body: <p>Completely new to python i'm having problems finding this with version 2.4</p>
  
  <p>I have a text file that contains 3 columns they are tab delimited by not a single tab, 9 tabs. 
  1000 line file
  ex:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$1$sda4356:[sgb1_diska5.ldlbat44.libabl]talild_0329_base.rpt                                talild_0329_base.rpt                                                                      00000000000000005062
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What i need to do is sort everything by column 3 ( 00000000000000005062 ).</p>
  
  <p>Is using the csv reader the best way to handle doing this?  how do i get it to handle the fact that my text file is using 9 tabs to seperate each column. Most other things i'm finding are incompatiable with python 2.4.</p>