readline() & seek() ???

[Kam-Hung Soh]

Tim Roberts wrote:
> DataSmash <rdh at new.rr.com> wrote:
>> I have a text file that contains thousands of lines and each line is
>> 256 characters long.
>>
>> This is my task:
>> For each line in the file, move to the 25th character, if the
>> character is a "T",
>> move to the 35th character of the line and read 5 characters from
>> there.
>> Capture these 5 characters and write them to a new text file, each 5
>> characters separated by a comma.
>>
>> I appreciate your help!
> 
> Did you even TRY this?  Your task reads like pseudocode that translates
> virtually line-for-line to Python code.
> 
>   fout = open('outputfile.txt','w')
>   for line in open('inputfile.txt'):
>       if line[24] == 'T':
>           fout.write( line[34:39] + ',' )

Should the last line be ...

fout.write(','.join(line[34:39])

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