I'm new to Python and I'm struggling. I have a text file (*.txt) with
a couple thousand entries, each on their own line (similar to a phone
book). How do I make a script to create something like an inverted
dictionary that will allow me to call "robert" and create a new text
file of all of the lines that contain "robert"?
Thanks so much.
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Hello,
First I'm not so clear about your problem, but you can do the following
steps:
1. Transform your file into list (list1)
2. Use regex to capture 'robert' in every member of list1 and add to
list2
3. Transform your list2 into a file
pujo
import re
name = "Robert"
f = file('phonebook .txt','r')
lines = [line.rstrip("\n ") for line in f.readlines()]
pat = re.compile(name , re.I)
related_lines = [line for line in lines if pat.search(line )]
And then you write the lines in related_lines to a file. I don't really
write text to files much so, um, yeah.
OK, so my problem is I have a text file with all of these instances,
for example 5000 facts about animals. I need to go through the file
and put all of the facts (lines) that contain the word lion into a file
called lion.txt. If I come across an animal or other word for which a
file does not yet exist I need to create a file for that word and put
all instances of that word into that file. I realize that this should
probably create 30,000 files or so. Any help would be REALLY
appreciated. Thanks. Reece
I think you need to get a database. Anyways, if anything, it should
create no more than 5,000 files, since 5,000 facts shouldn't talk about
30,000 animals. There have been a few discussions about looking at
files in directories though, if you want to look at those.
I will transfer eventually use a database but is there any way for now
you could help me make the text files? Thank you so much. Reece
I will transfer eventually use a database but is there any way for now
you could help me make the text files? Thank you so much. Reece
I will transfer eventually use a database but is there any way for now
you could help me make the text files? Thank you so much. Reece
Oh, I seem to have missed the part saying 'or other word'. Are you
doing this for every single word in the file?
Yes, I am. Does that make it harder.
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