[Tutor] deleting CR within files

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that David Talaga may have mentioned these words:


import os, Tkinter, dialog, sys

# You weren't using re anymore, no need to import it

root=Tkinter.Tk()

f=Tkinter.Button(root, text="Find Files", command=dialog.dialog).pack()
x=Tkinter.Button(root, text="Close", command=sys.exit(0)).pack()

# you didn't use 'sub' anymore, so...
# sub = re.sub

fileName= dialog.dialog

# if you call readlines() on the open, it opens, reads, and
# closes all in one step, it makes readability easier...

in_file = open(fileName,'r').readlines()

# See my previous post about how you can put the _cleaned *before*
# the extension so you can still open the files by extension...

out_file = open(fileName + '_cleaned', 'w')

for i in in_file:

# There's a non-syntax bug in the next line: if you need to remove
# the last character in the line, use -1. A negative index means:
#  "Go from the end of the array (in this case an array of chars)
#   and work backwards."
# what you coded was "Take the first character of every string,
# lop off the rest, and add a \n." Prolly not what you wanted. ;-)

     out_file.write(i[:-1] + '\n')

# Remember, this is not actually searching for '\r' chars - it's only
# lopping off the last character, and adding a \n. If this is in
# winders, this won't work, as the standard line ending is
# '\r\n' - and the code above is lopping off a \n to add a \n.
#    out_file.write(i[:-2] + '\n')  # is what you'd want for winders.

     print 'File cleaned'

# Python is "indent-loop" based - you'll be printing 'File cleaned'
# for *every line* in the file, not only at the end of the file.
# You'd wanna move that out of the loop by unindenting it.

# Next line not necessary if you readlines() with the open...
# in_file.close()
out_file.close()

# I haven't done a lot of Tk programming, but shouldn't the next
# line be:

root.mainloop()

# instead of Tkinter.mainloop?

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My (so far one and only) main Tkinter script I wrote is here:

http://tivo.30below.com/zmerch/AviSynth_2.pyw

It's been tested on Python 2.2.2 and 2.3.x - and it's for a winders platform...

[snip]


>Now when I run it is says this:
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in ?
>     execfile('crgui.py')
>   File "crgui.py", line 13, in ?
>     in_file = open(fileName,'r')
>TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, function found

For this error, what I'd do is right before this line, put in this:

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print fileName
sys.exit(0)

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If what prints looks like: u'ThisIsUnicode.txt'
                            ^^
starting with a U, then the dialog.dialog script
is returning a unicode string instead of standard
ASCII string, which is what's necessary to open files.

Try this line instead:

fileName= str(dialog.dialog)

That may convert the unicode to standard ASCII.

HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at 30below.com

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