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Exercise: Merge files with timestamps

  • Write a script called merge_files_with_timestamps.py
  • Given a few CSV files in which the first column is a timestamp, write a script that can merge the files so the merged result also has timestamps in increasing order.
  • First try to solve it for 2 files.
  • Then solve it for any N files.
1601009973,1
1601009975,3
1601009976,4
1601009978,6
1601009981,9
1601009982,10
1601009983,11
1601009984,12
1601009987,15
1601009989,17
1601009990,18
1601009991,19
1601009992,20
1601009974,2
1601009977,5
1601009980,8
1601009988,16
1601009979,7
1601009985,13
1601009986,14