Hello All,
I have a problem with the program that should generate x number of txt
files (x is the number of records in the file datafile.txt).
Once I execute the program (see below) only one file (instead of x
files) is created. The file created is based on the last record in
datafile.txt.
The program is as follows:
=============== =============== ======
#! python
HEADER = "This page displays longitude-latitude information"
SUBHEADER = "City"
for line in open("datafile. txt"):
town, latlong = line.split('\t' )
f = open(town + ".txt", "w+")
f.write(HEADER + "\n")
f.write(SUBHEAD ER + ": " + town + "\n")
f.write("LAT/LONG" + ": " + latlong + "\n")
f.close()
# end
=============== =============== ======
The datafile.txt is as follows (tab separated columns):
=============== =============== ======
NYC 1111-2222
Lima 3333-4444
Rome 5555-6666
=============== =============== ======
Once executed, the program will create a single file (named Rome.txt)
and it would not create files NYC.txt and Lima.txt as I would expect it
to do.
I'd appreciate if you can pinpoint my error.
Best,
Vasa 6 1800 va************* *@yahoo.com wrote: Hello All,
I have a problem with the program that should generate x number of txt files (x is the number of records in the file datafile.txt).
Once I execute the program (see below) only one file (instead of x files) is created. The file created is based on the last record in datafile.txt.
The program is as follows: =============== =============== ====== #! python
HEADER = "This page displays longitude-latitude information" SUBHEADER = "City"
for line in open("datafile. txt"):
town, latlong = line.split('\t' )
f = open(town + ".txt", "w+")
f.write(HEADER + "\n") f.write(SUBHEAD ER + ": " + town + "\n") f.write("LAT/LONG" + ": " + latlong + "\n") f.close()
# end =============== =============== ======
The datafile.txt is as follows (tab separated columns): =============== =============== ======
NYC 1111-2222 Lima 3333-4444 Rome 5555-6666
=============== =============== ======
Once executed, the program will create a single file (named Rome.txt) and it would not create files NYC.txt and Lima.txt as I would expect it to do.
I'd appreciate if you can pinpoint my error.
Best,
Vasa
Did you try indenting the last five lines?
Iain
You have only indented the first line in the for-loop, so for each line
in the file you split the line into town and latlong. Then after you
have split the last line in the file you write a new file with the last
result in the for-loop.
What you want is probably something like this:
#! python
HEADER = "This page displays longitude-latitude information"
SUBHEADER = "City"
for line in open("datafile. txt"):
town, latlong = line.split('\t' )
f = open(town + ".txt", "w+")
f.write(HEADER + "\n")
f.write(SUBHEAD ER + ": " + town + "\n")
f.write("LAT/LONG" + ": " + latlong + "\n")
f.close()
# end
/Johan va************* *@yahoo.com wrote: Hello All,
I have a problem with the program that should generate x number of txt files (x is the number of records in the file datafile.txt).
Once I execute the program (see below) only one file (instead of x files) is created. The file created is based on the last record in datafile.txt.
The program is as follows: =============== =============== ====== #! python
HEADER = "This page displays longitude-latitude information" SUBHEADER = "City"
for line in open("datafile. txt"):
town, latlong = line.split('\t' )
f = open(town + ".txt", "w+")
f.write(HEADER + "\n") f.write(SUBHEAD ER + ": " + town + "\n") f.write("LAT/LONG" + ": " + latlong + "\n") f.close()
# end =============== =============== ======
The datafile.txt is as follows (tab separated columns): =============== =============== ======
NYC 1111-2222 Lima 3333-4444 Rome 5555-6666
=============== =============== ======
Once executed, the program will create a single file (named Rome.txt) and it would not create files NYC.txt and Lima.txt as I would expect it to do.
I'd appreciate if you can pinpoint my error.
Since the lines that handle writing to the file aren't indented as far
as the line that splits the data, they are not part of the loop. They
are only executed once after the loop has completed, with town and
latlong set to the values they got at the last iteration of the loop.
It should look more like this:
for line in open("datafile. txt"):
town, latlong = line.split('\t' )
f = open(town + ".txt", "w+")
f.write(HEADER + "\n")
f.write(SUBHEAD ER + ": " + town + "\n")
f.write("LAT/LONG" + ": " + latlong + "\n")
f.close() va************* *@yahoo.com wrote: Hello All,
I have a problem with the program that should generate x number of txt files (x is the number of records in the file datafile.txt).
Once I execute the program (see below) only one file (instead of x files) is created. The file created is based on the last record in datafile.txt .
The program is as follows: ============== =============== ======= #! python
HEADER = "This page displays longitude-latitude information" SUBHEADER = "City"
for line in open("datafile. txt"):
town, latlong = line.split('\t' )
f = open(town + ".txt", "w+")
f.write(HEAD ER + "\n") f.write(SUBHEA DER + ": " + town + "\n") f.write("LAT/LONG" + ": " + latlong + "\n") f.close()
These lines need to be within your loop.
J va************* *@yahoo.com wrote: Once I execute the program (see below) only one file (instead of x files) is created. The file created is based on the last record in datafile.txt.
#! python
HEADER = "This page displays longitude-latitude information" SUBHEADER = "City"
for line in open("datafile. txt"):
town, latlong = line.split('\t' )
In Python whitespace is significant. For the following to be executed in the
for-loop it has to be indented to the same level as the line above.
f = open(town + ".txt", "w+")
f.write(HEADER + "\n") f.write(SUBHEAD ER + ": " + town + "\n") f.write("LAT/LONG" + ": " + latlong + "\n") f.close()
# end =============== =============== ======
The effect of aligning it with the for-statement is that it is executed only
once /after/ the loop has run to completion. At that point town and latlong
are still bound to the values they were assigned in the last iteration
(with an empty datafile.txt the loop would never be executed and you would
get a NameError).
Peter
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