I'm guessing I'm missing something obvious here, but I have searched around and re-read my Python books and references on simple file writing and I can't see the answer. I am running this in Windows XP in IDLE.
I have some simple code I wrote to open a large log file with 39 extra characters starting each line that I want to strip out. Then I just want to rewrite the lines in a new file without those 39 preceding characters per line. -
output = open('newlogfile', 'w')
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for line in open('ClientLog_072507_17302.log','r'):
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clipline = line[39:]
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output.write(clipline)
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output.close
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output = open('testlogfile', 'w')
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As you can see I am opening another output logfile at the end. When I ran the code without that last line it never seemed to write to the first output file. I could print the results correctly in the line just prior to the output.write line, but the output file size was always zero. As soon as I opened a new bogus file with the last line, it wrote the first file with all my data.
So, this code actually works for my purposes, but I'd like to know what I did wrong for it not to work without opening another bogus file. I added the output.close even though I thought it wasn't absolutely necessary for simple tasks like this. I also originally had the string handling code in the same line as the output.write but I broke it up into two lines to see if I was making some mistake with the string.
The logfile to read is in the same directory as the program so I didn't include a path.
Any help anyone can provide in pointing out what I might have gotten wrong in the output file handling would be greatly appreciated. Since I have the cludgy workaround, there is no urgency in this. But I'd like to know the right way to do this. Thanks
4  1803   bvdet 2,851
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I'm guessing I'm missing something obvious here, but I have searched around and re-read my Python books and references on simple file writing and I can't see the answer. I am running this in Windows XP in IDLE.
I have some simple code I wrote to open a large log file with 39 extra characters starting each line that I want to strip out. Then I just want to rewrite the lines in a new file without those 39 preceding characters per line.
-
output = open('newlogfile', 'w')
-
for line in open('ClientLog_072507_17302.log','r'):
-
clipline = line[39:]
-
output.write(clipline)
-
output.close
-
output = open('testlogfile', 'w')
-
As you can see I am opening another output logfile at the end. When I ran the code without that last line it never seemed to write to the first output file. I could print the results correctly in the line just prior to the output.write line, but the output file size was always zero. As soon as I opened a new bogus file with the last line, it wrote the first file with all my data.
So, this code actually works for my purposes, but I'd like to know what I did wrong for it not to work without opening another bogus file. I added the output.close even though I thought it wasn't absolutely necessary for simple tasks like this. I also originally had the string handling code in the same line as the output.write but I broke it up into two lines to see if I was making some mistake with the string.
The logfile to read is in the same directory as the program so I didn't include a path.
Any help anyone can provide in pointing out what I might have gotten wrong in the output file handling would be greatly appreciated. Since I have the cludgy workaround, there is no urgency in this. But I'd like to know the right way to do this. Thanks
The file object must be closed properly to flush the data to disk:
file.close() is a file method.
bvdet 2,851
Recognized Expert Moderator Specialist
If your log file is not huge, you can do something like this which should be more efficient: - outList = [line[39:] for line in open('ClientLog_072507_17302.log','r')]
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output = open('newlogfile', 'w')
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output.write(''.join(outList))
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output.close()
bartonc 6,596
Recognized Expert Expert
If your log file is not huge, you can do something like this which should be more efficient: - outList = [line[39:] for line in open('ClientLog_072507_17302.log','r')]
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output = open('newlogfile', 'w')
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output.write(''.join(outList))
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output.close()
FingerDemon: You left off the parentheses on line 5. It should read:
BVDet: What's wrong with the writelines() method? -
output.writelines(outList)
bvdet 2,851
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FingerDemon: You left off the parentheses on line 5. It should read:
BVDet: What's wrong with the writelines() method? -
output.writelines(outList)
You are correct, writelines() would be better in this case. join() may be useful when a '\n' is required between lines.
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