converting pipe delimited file to fixed width

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digz wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to convert a | delimited  file to fixed width by right
> padding with spaces, Here is how I have written the program , just get
> the feeling this can be done in a much better ( python functional )
> way rather than the procedural code i have below . Any help
> appreciated
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> def rightFill(fillString, toLength, fillChar):
>     return fillString+''.join([fillChar for x in range(len
> (fillString),toLength)])
> 
> fieldWidth=[ 14, 6, 18, 21, 21,4, 6  ];
> 
> file = open("/home/chatdi/input.csv", "r");
> lines = file.readlines()
> file.close()
> 
> out = open( "/home/chatdi/ouptut.csv", 'w')
> for line in lines:
>     line = line[:-1]
>     index = 0
>     for token in line.split('|'):
>         paddedToken = rightFill(token, fieldWidth[index], ' ' )
>         out.write( paddedToken )
>         index = index + 1
>     out.write("\n")
> 
Here's my version:

#!/usr/bin/python

field_widths = [14, 6, 18, 21, 21, 4, 6]

out = open("/home/chatdi/ouptut.csv", 'w')
for line in open("/home/chatdi/input.csv", "r"):
     fields = line.rstrip().split('|')
     padded_fields = [field.ljust(width) for field, width in zip(fields, 
field_widths)]
     out.write("".join(padded_fields) + "\n")

out.close()