2007/3/23, Jay Mutter III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Mar 23, 2007, at 5:30 AM, Andre Engels wrote:
2007/3/22, Jay Mutter III < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I wanted the following to check each line and if it ends in a right
> parentheses then write the entire line to one file and if not then
> write the line to anther.
> It wrote all of the ) to one file and the rest of the line (ie minus
> the ) to the other file.
The line:
print "There are ", count, 'lines to process in this file'
should give you a hint - don't you think this number was rather high?
The problem is that if you do "for line in text" with text being a string,
it will not loop over the _lines_ in the string, but over the _characters_
in the string.
The easiest solution would be to replace
text = in_file.read()
by
text = in_file.readlines()
Thanks for the response
Actually the number of lines this returns is the same number of lines
given when i put it in a text editor (TextWrangler).
Luke had mentioned the same thing earlier but when I do change read to
readlines i get the following
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "extract_companies.py", line 17, in ?
count = len(text.splitlines())
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'splitlines'
Ah, yes, there you DO split in lines, but later you don't. You'll have to do
the same thing twice, that is either:
text = in_file.readlines()
count = len(text) # (instead of count = len(text.splitlines())
OR
text = in_file.read()
for line in text.splitlines(): # (instead of for line in text:)
in_filename = raw_input('What is the COMPLE
>
TE name of the file you
> would like to process? ')
> in_file = open(in_filename, 'rU')
> text = in_file.read()
> count = len(text.splitlines())
> print "There are ", count, 'lines to process in this file'
> out_filename1 = raw_input('What is the COMPLETE name of the file in
> which you would like to save Companies? ')
> companies = open(out_filename1, 'aU')
> out_filename2 = raw_input('What is the COMPLETE name of the file in
> which you would like to save Inventors? ')
> patentdata = open(out_filename2, 'aU')
> for line in text:
> if line[-1] in ')':
> companies.write(line)
> else:
> patentdata.write(line)
> in_file.close()
> companies.close ()
> patentdata.close()
>
> Thanks
>
> jay
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