[BangPypers] Need help Extracting data properly in python

[Baiju M]

May be this one will be useful:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/texttable

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Abdul Muneer <abdulmuneer at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is an old python package which does it neatly
> http://www.astro.rug.nl/~breddels/python/tableio.html
>
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> Abdul Muneer
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> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Kulkarni, Shreyas <shyran at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> if this is a valid tab-seperated file, you could try parsing it using csv
>> module with dialect set to '\t' or 'excel-tab' maybe?
>>
>> shreyas
>>
>> On Feb 19, 2014, at 5:43 PM, "kamalakar06 ." <foxrun2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have a file like this(Tabular data) :
>> >
>> > 0     1   CEN/4     1.0000e3    3.000e3     4.000e-3
>> >                              1.000e-3     3.000e3     5.000e3
>> >
>> >                  11        2.000e3      3.000e4     6.000e3
>> >                               1.000e4      1.000e4     1.000e5
>> >
>> >                   12       1.00e4         1.000e5      1.000e6
>> >                                2.00e4        2.000e5      1.000e4
>> >
>> > 0     2      CEN/4    1.0000e3    3.000e3      4.000e-3
>> >                                1.000e-3     3.000e3      5.000e3
>> >
>> >                     41       2.000e3      3.000e4     6.000e3
>> >                                 1.000e4      1.000e4    1.000e5
>> >
>> >                      50      1.00e4         1.000e5      1.000e6
>> >                                 2.00e4         2.000e5      1.000e4
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I want to extract the data column wise. How do i do that
>> >
>> > My code is like this :
>> >
>> > import os
>> >
>> > f1=open('newdata1.txt','w')
>> > L = []
>> > for index, line in enumerate(open('Trial_1.txt','r')):
>> >    #print index
>> >    if index < 0: #skip first 5 lines
>> >        continue
>> >    else:
>> >        line =line.split()
>> >        L.append('%s\t%s\t %s\t %s\t%s\n' %(line[0],
>> > line[1],line[2],line[3],line[4]))
>> >
>> >
>> > f1.writelines(L)
>> >
>> > f1.close()
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Output looks like this:
>> >
>> > 0     1   CEN/4     1.0000e3    3.000e3
>> > 1.000e-3     3.000e3     5.000e3
>> >
>> >
>> > Now the code is not extracting the column data properly,since there is
>> tab
>> > space after first line . How to give tab space in python wherever space
>> is
>> > there to extract the data properly.Where to modify my code.
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