Code Explanation

[rishi pathak]

On 5/17/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue <robert.rawlins at thinkbluemedia.co.uk>
wrote:
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>  Hello Guys,
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> I'm currently working on a non-python project, and I'm trying to overcome
> a task of parsing a text file into a database and/or xml file. I've managed
> to find a parser example written in python, and I'm hoping to deconstruct
> the code methodology a bit so I can write it in another language. So I'm
> hoping someone can explain to me what these following bits of code are
> doing.
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> lines = range(data.count("\n"))
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> lined_data = data.split("\n")
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eg:
data="abc\n123\ngh\nxyz\n"
data.split("\n") will give you an array(list in python) in the following
manner
['abc', '123', 'gh', 'xyz']


print "Read %i vendors, now processing" % data.count("(hex)")
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> I've not used the split() function before, but it partly makes sense to
> me. What is that piece of code doing? 'Data' is the content of the text
> file, presumably the first line there is counting the number of lines in the
> file, but I don't get the rest of it.
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> The rest of the code seems like a relatively simple set of loops, but it's
> just this splitting stuff that's got me confused.
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> Thanks,
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> Rob
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Regards--
Rishi Pathak
National PARAM Supercomputing Facility
Center for Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC)
Pune University Campus,Ganesh Khind Road
Pune-Maharastra
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