Newbie Question: Regular Expressions

fett at tradersdata.com fett at tradersdata.com
Thu Jul 12 12:39:43 EDT 2001


I have a really dumb program that i would like to make smarter.  I need
to take a file on my hard drive and filter out everything except for the
standings which are written in it.  I have tried to use regular
expressions with no success, but i still think that they are probably
the best way.  I created the following simple fix, but it is unreliable
if the data changed posistions.


input = open('rawdata', 'r')
S = input.read()
print S[4021:6095]

Output :
   League Standings
   American League
     EAST W L PCT GB HOME ROAD EAST CENT WEST NL L10 STRK
     Red Sox 43 29 .597 - 23-15 20-14 23-13 8-7 6-6 6-3 6-4 L2
     Yankees 41 31 .569 2.0 21-15 20-16 19-11 12-9 5-7 5-4 6-3 W2
     Blue Jays 35 38 .479 8.5 18-20 17-18 14-13 6-7 11-13 4-5 5-5 W3
     Orioles 34 39 .466 9.5 20-20 14-19 15-17 9-12 6-5 4-5 5-5 L1
........( it continues with all the standings)


Also could you tell me if its possible to download the data from the
web-page in python so that it doesnt even have to deal with opening the
file.







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