Hello,
On 29 June 2013 19:00, Makarand Datar <da...@wisc.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
Try this:
import re
input_str = """
one, two, three
, four, five, six
! This is a comment
seven, eight, nine
"""
# Join lines ending in trailing commas:
input_str = re.sub('\n,', '', input_str)
# Remove comment lines starting with !
input_str = re.sub('!.*\n', '', input_str)
print input_str
Walter
_______________________________________________
Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org
To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
