Not homework...not even in school (do any universities even teach
classes using python?). Just not a programmer. Anyways I should
probably be more clear about what I'm trying to do.
Since I cant show the actual output file lets say I had an output file
that looked like this:
a b Person: Jimmy
Current Location: Denver
Next Location: Chicago
--
a b Person: Sarah
Current Location: San Diego
Next Location: Miami
Next Location: New York
--
Now I want to put (and all recurrences of "Person: Jimmy")
Person: Jimmy
Current Location: Denver
Next Location: Chicago
in a file called jimmy.txt
and the same for Sarah in sarah.txt
The code I currently have looks something like this:
import re
import sys
person_jimmy = open('jimmy.txt', 'w') #creates jimmy.txt
person_sarah = open('sarah.txt', 'w') #creates sarah.txt
f = open(sys.argv[1]) #opens output file
#loop that goes through all lines and parses specified text
for line in f.readlines():
if re.search(r'Person: Jimmy', line):
person_jimmy.write(line)
elif re.search(r'Person: Sarah', line):
person_sarah.write(line)
#closes all files
person_jimmy.close()
person_sarah.close()
f.close()
However this only would produces output files that look like this:
jimmy.txt:
a b Person: Jimmy
sarah.txt:
a b Person: Sarah
My question is what else do I need to add (such as an embedded loop
where the if statements are?) so the files look like this
a b Person: Jimmy
Current Location: Denver
Next Location: Chicago
and
a b Person: Sarah
Current Location: San Diego
Next Location: Miami
Next Location: New York
Basically I need to add statements that after finding that line copy
all the lines following it and stopping when it sees
'--'
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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