I'm having difficulty getting the following code to work. All I want
to do is remove the '0:00:00' from the end of each line. Here is part
of the original file:
3,3,"Dyspepsia NOS",9/12/2003 0:00:00
4,3,"OA of lower leg",9/12/2003 0:00:00
5,4,"Cholera NOS",9/12/2003 0:00:00
6,4,"Open wound of ear NEC*",9/12/2003 0:00:00
7,4,"Migraine with aura",9/12/2003 0:00:00
8,6,"HTN [Hypertension]",10/15/2003 0:00:00
10,3,"Imerslund syndrome",10/27/2003 0:00:00
12,4,"Juvenile neurosyphilis", 11/4/2003 0:00:00
13,4,"Benign paroxysmal positional nystagmus",11/4/2003 0:00:00
14,3,"Salmonell a infection, unspecified",11/7/2003 0:00:00
20,3,"Bubonic plague",11/11/2003 0:00:00
output = open('my/path/ProblemListFixe d.txt', 'w')
for line in open('my/path/ProblemList.txt ', 'r'):
newline = line.rstrip('0: 00:00')
output.write(ne wline)
output.close()
This result is a copy of "ProblemLis t" without any changes made. What
am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.
Mike 5 1405
barronmo wrote:
I'm having difficulty getting the following code to work. All I want
to do is remove the '0:00:00' from the end of each line. Here is part
of the original file:
3,3,"Dyspepsia NOS",9/12/2003 0:00:00
4,3,"OA of lower leg",9/12/2003 0:00:00
5,4,"Cholera NOS",9/12/2003 0:00:00
6,4,"Open wound of ear NEC*",9/12/2003 0:00:00
7,4,"Migraine with aura",9/12/2003 0:00:00
8,6,"HTN [Hypertension]",10/15/2003 0:00:00
10,3,"Imerslund syndrome",10/27/2003 0:00:00
12,4,"Juvenile neurosyphilis", 11/4/2003 0:00:00
13,4,"Benign paroxysmal positional nystagmus",11/4/2003 0:00:00
14,3,"Salmonell a infection, unspecified",11/7/2003 0:00:00
20,3,"Bubonic plague",11/11/2003 0:00:00
output = open('my/path/ProblemListFixe d.txt', 'w')
for line in open('my/path/ProblemList.txt ', 'r'):
newline = line.rstrip('0: 00:00')
output.write(ne wline)
output.close()
This result is a copy of "ProblemLis t" without any changes made. What
am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.
It works kind of for me - but it's actually a bit more than you want. Take a
close look on what rstrip _really_ does. Small hint:
print "foobar".rstrip ("rab")
Diez
On Dec 11, 7:25 pm, barronmo <barro...@gmail .comwrote:
I'm having difficulty getting the following code to work. All I want
to do is remove the '0:00:00' from the end of each line. Here is part
of the original file:
3,3,"Dyspepsia NOS",9/12/2003 0:00:00
4,3,"OA of lower leg",9/12/2003 0:00:00
5,4,"Cholera NOS",9/12/2003 0:00:00
6,4,"Open wound of ear NEC*",9/12/2003 0:00:00
7,4,"Migraine with aura",9/12/2003 0:00:00
8,6,"HTN [Hypertension]",10/15/2003 0:00:00
10,3,"Imerslund syndrome",10/27/2003 0:00:00
12,4,"Juvenile neurosyphilis", 11/4/2003 0:00:00
13,4,"Benign paroxysmal positional nystagmus",11/4/2003 0:00:00
14,3,"Salmonell a infection, unspecified",11/7/2003 0:00:00
20,3,"Bubonic plague",11/11/2003 0:00:00
output = open('my/path/ProblemListFixe d.txt', 'w')
for line in open('my/path/ProblemList.txt ', 'r'):
newline = line.rstrip('0: 00:00')
output.write(ne wline)
output.close()
This result is a copy of "ProblemLis t" without any changes made. What
am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.
Mike
rstrip() won't do what you think it should do.
you could either use .replace('0:00: 00','') directly on the input
string or if it might occur in one of the other elements as well then
just split the line on delimeters.
In the first case you can do.
for line in input_file:
output_file.wri te( line.replace('0 :00:00','') )
in the latter rather.
for line in input_file:
tmp = line.split( ',' )
tmp[3] = tmp[3].replace('0:00: 00')
output_file.wri te( ','.join( tmp ) )
Hope that helps,
Chris
This result is a copy of "ProblemLis t" without any changes made. What
am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.
rstrip doesn't work the way you think it does
>>help(str.rstr ip)
Help on method_descript or:
rstrip(...)
S.rstrip([chars]) -string or unicode
Return a copy of the string S with trailing whitespace removed.
If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars
instead.
If chars is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before
stripping
>>'abcdef'.rstr ip('e')
'abcdef'
>>'abcdef'.rstr ip('ef')
'abcd'
>>'abcdef'.rstr ip('efc')
'abcd'
>>'abcdef'.rstr ip('efcd')
'ab'
>>'20,3,"Buboni c plague",11/11/2003 0:00:00\n'.rstr ip('0:00:00')
'20,3,"Bubonic plague",11/11/2003 0:00:00\n'
>>'20,3,"Buboni c plague",11/11/2003 0:00:00\n'.rstr ip('0:00:00\n')
'20,3,"Bubonic plague",11/11/2003 '
>>'20,3,"Buboni c plague",11/11/2003 0:00:00\n'.rstr ip('0:\n')
'20,3,"Bubonic plague",11/11/2003 '
You probably just want to use slicing though:
>>'20,3,"Buboni c plague",11/11/2003 0:00:00\n'[:-9]
'20,3,"Bubonic plague",11/11/2003'
But don't forget to re-attach a newline before writing out. That goes
for the first method also.
Matt
barronmo wrote:
I'm having difficulty getting the following code to work. All I want
to do is remove the '0:00:00' from the end of each line. Here is part
of the original file:
3,3,"Dyspepsia NOS",9/12/2003 0:00:00 ...
20,3,"Bubonic plague",11/11/2003 0:00:00
output = open('my/path/ProblemListFixe d.txt', 'w')
for line in open('my/path/ProblemList.txt ', 'r'):
newline = line.rstrip('0: 00:00')
output.write(ne wline)
output.close()
This result is a copy of "ProblemLis t" without any changes made. What
am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.
You should feel lucky that it didn't work :-) If you would have used
newline = line.rstrip('0: 00:00\n')
you would not have found the problem, nor the solution.
--
Kees
Thanks everyone. I learned several things on this one. I ended up
using the .replace() method and got the results I wanted.
Thanks again,
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