Hi, So I am able to read in a file, and write out a file from python. I have some question about the text manipulation that I need to do between reading in a file and spitting out another. Couple of things I would like to do, are: if the first character of a line is a comma, I would like to delete the newline character at the end of the previous line and make a longer line (one line followed by another without a newline in between); if the first character of the line is an exclamation mark, I would like to delete that line altogether. So for instance, if the input file text looks like the following,
one, two, three , four, five, six ! This is a comment seven, eight, nine I would like to output a file the text in which looks like one, two, three, four, five, six seven, eight, nine This is to get me going on this and I will have to do a LOT of text manipulation beyond this. So any tips in general are highly appreciated. Thank you On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Makarand Datar <da...@wisc.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I know practically nothing about python. I know how to install it and all > that kind of stuff. I want to use python for parsing a text file. The task > is to read in a text file, and write out another text file that is written > in some particular way using the data from the file that was read in. The > question is how do I go about this? What part of python documentation, or a > book I should read etc. I dont want to start reading a python book from the > first page. I just want to do this parsing task and I will learn about > whatever I need to as I encounter it. > > Thank you for the help. >
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