.txt file to excel .csv

[Justin C]

Hello,

I have some very large(several Mb) text files I am trying to process and parse using a Python script (novice python user). I am using the eclipse IDE and version 3 of python if that makes a difference.

I am trying to also make use of the csv module in python.

the .txt file has the following format for data:

 
09:04:11
<break>0M!00021<CR><LF>
0<CR><LF>
0D0!0+32044+31681<CR><LF>
 
09:04:16
<break>0M!00021<CR><LF>
0<CR><LF>
0D0!0+32051+31685<CR><LF>
 
09:04:21
<break>0M!00021<CR><LF>
0<CR><LF>
0D0!0+32049+31679<CR><LF>
 

I would like to extract the information into the following CSV format:

09:04:11,32044,31681
09:04:16,32051,31685
09:04:21,32049,31679
 

any help or pseudo code would be greatly appreciated.

[bvdet]

Create an open file object for reading
Initialize an empty list to save the data
Iterate on the file object using a for loop
Start a nested for loop (for i in range(5))
Initialize a temporary list
i == 0, strip white space and append current line to temp list
i == 3, split string on "+", strip white space, append elements 1 and 2 to temp list
Advance file position one line by calling file object method next() or readline()
End of nested loop, append temp list to data list
End of file iteration
Close file object
Open file object for writing
Write data to disc
Close file object

[Justin C]

Thanks for pseudo code, I got something else implemented but this is a more robust solution.