Re: [Tutor] How to select particular lines from a text

2004-12-04 Thread Alan Gauld
> This is continuation to my previous email with > sugject line "Python regular expression". My text > file although, looks like .ini file, but it is not. It > is a chip definition file from Gene chip. it is a > huge file with over 340,000 lines. Thats big but by no means outragous, I have proc

Re: [Tutor] How to select particular lines from a text

2004-12-04 Thread R. Alan Monroe
> Name: > City: > > > Characterstics of this text: > 1. This text is divided into blocks and every block > start with 'Name'. The number of lines after this > identifier is random. [snip] > 1. mark the identifier i need and select all the lines > after

Re: [Tutor] How to select particular lines from a text

2004-12-04 Thread Kent Johnson
kumar, Here is a solution for you. The makeSections() function will iterate through blocks in the file and return each one in turn to the caller. makeSections() is a generator function - the use of yield makes it one. That means that it returns an iterator that can be used in a for loop. Each ti

[Tutor] How to select particular lines from a text

2004-12-04 Thread kumar s
Dear group, This is continuation to my previous email with sugject line "Python regular expression". My text file although, looks like .ini file, but it is not. It is a chip definition file from Gene chip. it is a huge file with over 340,000 lines. I have particular set of question in general