diff --git a/tools/chat_cleanup.py b/tools/chat_cleanup.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+from collections import OrderedDict
+import sys, os
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 3:
+    print('Usage: %s chatlist_in.dat chatlist_out.dat' % sys.argv[0])
+    sys.exit(1) 
+
+inFile = sys.argv[1]
+outFile = sys.argv[2]
+
+with open(inFile, 'r') as file:
+    words = file.readlines()
+ 
+words = [word.rstrip('\n') for word in words]
+ 
+for index, word in enumerate(words):
+    try: words[index] = int(word)
+    except: pass
+ 
+sorted_words = list(OrderedDict.fromkeys(sorted(words)))
+ 
+with open(outFile, 'w+') as file:
+    for word in sorted_words:
+        file.write(str(word) + '\n')
+ 
+print "A total of %d duplicates were removed." % (len(words)-len(sorted_words))
+print "A total of %d words were sorted." % len(sorted_words)