[Tutor] Strings and file saving
Daniel D. Laskey, CPA
dlaskey@laskeycpa.com
Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:50:26 -0400
HEY YOU GUYS!!
Objective:
1) Read this ASCII file that is space deliminated;
2) Pull out only the lines that have a '$' characters in the line;
3) Save the data to a new file.
# ----------- Code -----------
# import sys and string
import sys
import string
# get the appropriate data file
in_file = open("data_file","r")
# create the file to export the data to
out_file = open("junk2.txt","w+")
# read each line in the file
for line in in_file.readlines():
if string.find(line,'$')>= 0:
# # "print line" works well
# #print line
a = line
# # write the new file you created to the file "junk2.txt"
out_file.write(a)
out_file.close()
in_file.close()
# ----------- End of Code --------------
Traceback (innermost last):
File "today6.py", line 19, in ?
out_file.write(a)
NameError: a
I think I am a classic case of PDD ... Python Deficit Disorder :).
At best I'm one of those slow learners, so bear with me, please.
Dan
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