readline() - problem

[piotr]

Hi!
I'm a new user of python, and have problem.
I have a plain ascii file:
1aaaaaaaaaaaa1......1
1cccccccccccc2......1
1xxxxxxxxxxxx1......1
I want to create a new file which contains only lines with '1' on 15th
position.
I've tried this:

import string
f=open('/test/test.asc','r')
o=open('/test/out.asc','w')
for line in f:
s= f.readline()
if s[15]=='1' :
o.write(s)
o.close()
f.close()

Why it doesn't work ('s' contains ' ' )?

piotr

[Paul Hankin]

On Oct 2, 12:25 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

Hi!
I'm a new user of python, and have problem.
I have a plain ascii file:
1aaaaaaaaaaaa1......1
1cccccccccccc2......1
1xxxxxxxxxxxx1......1
I want to create a new file which contains only lines with '1' on 15th
position.
I've tried this:

import string
f=open('/test/test.asc','r')
o=open('/test/out.asc','w')
for line in f:
s= f.readline()
if s[15]=='1' :
o.write(s)
o.close()
f.close()

Why it doesn't work ('s' contains ' ' )?

You're iterating over the lines in f already, so no need to call
readline.

for line in f:
if line[15] == '1':
o.write(line)

--
Paul Hankin

[Ben Finney]

pi***@kolodziejczyk.waw.pl writes:

import string

Why import 'string' if you're not using it?

f=open('/test/test.asc','r')
o=open('/test/out.asc','w')
for line in f:
s= f.readline()

Your line object is already bound to the 'line' name in each
iteration. You need to use that, not attempt to read yet another line
each time.

That is, instead of::

for line in f:
foo = f.readline()
do_interesting_thing(foo)

you should do this::

for line in f:
do_interesting_thing(line)

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Ben Finney

[Wesley Brooks]

Given a file:

#### t.txt ####
1 2
1 1
3 1
### end of file ###

file = open('t.txt', 'r')
for i, line in enumerate(file):
print "Line:", i, "Text:", line

would give the result:

Line: 0 Text: 1 2
Line: 1 Text: 1 1
Line: 2 Text: 3 1

To check the third character in each line:

for line in file:
if (line != '') and (len(line) 2):
if line[2] == '1':
print "Got line:", line

Would give:

Got line: 1 1
Got line: 3 1

Cheers,

Wesley Brooks

On 02/10/2007, pi***@kolodziejczyk.waw.pl <pi***@kolodziejczyk.waw.plwrote:

Hi!
I'm a new user of python, and have problem.
I have a plain ascii file:
1aaaaaaaaaaaa1......1
1cccccccccccc2......1
1xxxxxxxxxxxx1......1
I want to create a new file which contains only lines with '1' on 15th
position.
I've tried this:

import string
f=open('/test/test.asc','r')
o=open('/test/out.asc','w')
for line in f:
s= f.readline()
if s[15]=='1' :
o.write(s)
o.close()
f.close()

Why it doesn't work ('s' contains ' ' )?

piotr

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[piotr]

On 2 Pa , 13:39, Ben Finney <[e-mail]>
wrote:

[e-mail] writes:

import string

Why import 'string' if you're not using it?

f=open('/test/test.asc','r')
o=open('/test/out.asc','w')
for line in f:
s= f.readline()

Your line object is already bound to the 'line' name in each
iteration. You need to use that, not attempt to read yet another line
each time.

Of course, it helped. Many thanks for all.

piotr

[Wayne Brehaut]

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:13:21 -0000, pi***@kolodziejczyk.waw.pl wrote:

>On 2 Pa , 13:39, Ben Finney <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>[e-mail] writes:

import string

Why import 'string' if you're not using it?

f=open('/test/test.asc','r')
o=open('/test/out.asc','w')
for line in f:
s= f.readline()

Your line object is already bound to the 'line' name in each
iteration. You need to use that, not attempt to read yet another line
each time.

Of course, it helped. Many thanks for all.

But be sure you note Wesley's point in teh following post:

If you want the 15th character your subscript must be 14, since
there's a 0th element?

wwwayne

>
piotr

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ricardo_Ar=E1oz?=]

Paul Hankin wrote:

On Oct 2, 12:25 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

>Hi!
I'm a new user of python, and have problem.
I have a plain ascii file:
1aaaaaaaaaaaa1......1
1cccccccccccc2......1
1xxxxxxxxxxxx1......1
I want to create a new file which contains only lines with '1' on 15th
position.
I've tried this:

import string
f=open('/test/test.asc','r')
o=open('/test/out.asc','w')
for line in f:
s= f.readline()
if s[15]=='1' :
o.write(s)
o.close()
f.close()

Why it doesn't work ('s' contains ' ' )?

You're iterating over the lines in f already, so no need to call
readline.

for line in f:
if line[15] == '1':
o.write(line)

--
Paul Hankin

Be aware also that the 15th position in your line would be line[14].