diff --git a/Examples/FileIO/README.md b/Examples/FileIO/README.md
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+# File I/O Examples
+
+This directory will contain some examples of using Python for file I/O as
+Spencer requested.
diff --git a/Examples/FileIO/people.dat b/Examples/FileIO/people.dat
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+Spencer
+Freena
+Aaron
+Toby
+Thomas
+Mulbah
+Jeff
+Shallon
+Janet
+Daniel
+Jallah
+Annie
diff --git a/Examples/FileIO/sort_people.py b/Examples/FileIO/sort_people.py
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+# Load the people from the data file for reading
+f = open('people.dat', 'r')
+# read in names, one per line
+names = f.readlines()
+# we're done with the file, close it
+f.close()
+# each name still has a newline, '\n' on the end of it, let's remove that
+cleaned_names = []
+for name in names:
+    cleaned_names.append(name[:-1])
+# now let's print out the names in alphabetical order
+for name in sorted(cleaned_names):
+    print(name)