2007/3/23, Jay Mutter III <<a href="mailto:jmutter@uakron.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jmutter@uakron.edu</a>>:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><br><div><span><div>On Mar 23, 2007, at 5:30 AM, Andre Engels wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">2007/3/22, Jay Mutter III <<a href="mailto:jmutter@uakron.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
jmutter@uakron.edu</a>>:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I wanted the following to check each line and if it ends in a right
<br>parentheses then write the entire line to one file and if not then<br>write the line to anther.<br>It wrote all of the ) to one file and the rest of the line (ie minus <br>the ) to the other file.</blockquote><div><br>
The line:<br> print "There are ", count, 'lines to process in this file'<br>should give you a hint - don't you think this number was rather high? <br><br>The problem is that if you do "for line in text" with text being a string, it will not loop over the _lines_ in the string, but over the _characters_ in the string.
<br><br>The easiest solution would be to replace <br> text = in_file.read()<br>by<br> text = in_file.readlines()<br></div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Thanks for the response</div><div>Actually the number of lines this returns is the same number of lines given when i put it in a text editor (TextWrangler).
</div><div>Luke had mentioned the same thing earlier but when I do change read to readlines i get the following</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Traceback (most recent call last):</div><div> File "extract_companies.py", line 17, in ?
</div><div> count = len(text.splitlines())</div><div>AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'splitlines'</div></div></div></blockquote></span><div><br><br>Ah, yes, there you DO split in lines, but later you don't. You'll have to do the same thing twice, that is either:
<br><br><span>text = in_file.readlines()<br>count = len(text) # (instead of count = len(text.splitlines())<br><br>OR<br><br>text = in_file.read()<br></span>for line in text.splitlines(): # (instead of for line in text:)
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<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">in_filename = raw_input('What is the COMPLE <br></blockquote></div></blockquote></span>
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<blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">TE name of the file you <br>would like to process? ')<br>
in_file = open(in_filename, 'rU')<br>text = in_file.read()<br>count = len(text.splitlines())<br>print "There are ", count, 'lines to process in this file'<br> out_filename1 = raw_input('What is the COMPLETE name of the file in
<br>which you would like to save Companies? ')<br>companies = open(out_filename1, 'aU')<br>out_filename2 = raw_input('What is the COMPLETE name of the file in <br>which you would like to save Inventors? ')
<br>patentdata = open(out_filename2, 'aU')<br>for line in text:<br> if line[-1] in ')':<br> companies.write(line)<br> else:<br> patentdata.write(line)<br>in_file.close()<br>companies.close
()<br>patentdata.close()<br><br>Thanks<br><br>jay<br>_______________________________________________<br>Tutor maillist - <a href="mailto:Tutor@python.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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