Andre; Thanks again for the assistance.
I have corrected the splitlines error and it works ( well that part of anyway) correctly now.
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() in_filename = raw_input('What is the COMPLETE 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 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Andre Engels, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
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