Stripping non-numbers from a file parse without nested lists?
daku9999 at gmail.com
daku9999 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 01:51:33 EDT 2009
There has got to be a better way of doing this:
I'm reading in a file that has a lot of garbage, but eventually has
something that looks similar to:
(some lines of garbage)
dip/dir.
(some more lines of garbage)
55/158
(some more lines of garbage)
33/156
etc.
and I'm stripping out the 55/158 values (with error checking
removed):
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def read_data(filename):
fh = open(filename, "r", encoding="ascii")
for line in fh:
for word in line.lower().split():
if "/" in word and "dip" not in word:
temp = word.partition("/")
dip.append(temp[0])
dir.append(temp[2])
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I can't figure out a nicer way of doing it without turning the thing
into a nested list (non-ideal). I could put the entire tuple inside
of a list, but that gets ugly with retrieval. I'm sure there is an
easier way to store this. I was having trouble with dictionary's due
to non-uniquie keys when I tried that route.
Any ideas for a better way to store it? This ultimately parses a
giant amount of data (ascii dxf's) and spits the information into a
csv, and I find the writing of nested lists cumbersome and I'm sure
I'm missing something as I'm quite new to Python.
Thanks.
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