Reading Fortran Ascii output using python
Irmen de Jong
irmen.NOSPAM at xs4all.nl
Mon Oct 31 13:29:49 EDT 2016
On 31-10-2016 18:20, Heli wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to read an ascii file written in Fortran90 using python. I am reading this file by opening the input file and then reading using:
>
> inputfile.readline()
>
> On each line of the ascii file I have a few numbers like this:
>
> line 1: 1
> line 2: 1000.834739 2000.38473 3000.349798
> line 3: 1000 2000 5000.69394 99934.374638 54646.9784
>
> The problem is when I have more than 3 numbers on the same line such as line 3, python seems to read this using two reads. This makes the above example will be read like this:
>
> line 1: 1
> line 2: 1000.834739 2000.38473 3000.349798
> line 3: 1000 2000 5000.69394
> line 4: 99934.374638 54646.9784
>
> How can I fix this for each fortran line to be read correctly using python?
>
> Thanks in Advance for your help,
>
>
You don't show any code so it's hard to say what is going on.
My guess is that your file contains spurious newlines and/or CRLF combinations.
Try opening the file in universal newline mode and see what happens?
with open("fortranfile.txt", "rU") as f:
for line in f:
print("LINE:", line)
Irmen
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