[Tutor] Re: .....str.count and str.split/solved

[Tim Johnson]

Duh! Found it. Lines ended with a '\t'. Had used rsplit to
strip newline, also stripped all ending '\t', I'll bet....
<grin> Thanks for listening - wonder what perl->chomp would do...
tim

* Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> [040506 20:05]:
> At 09:58 PM 5/6/2004, Tim Johnson wrote:
> >Correction below:
> >* Tim Johnson <tim at johnsons-web.com> [040506 19:17]:
> >> Hello:
> >>     I am importing TAB-delimited text data.
> 
> Could you attach a sample file, and your code?
> 
> >>
> >>     Each line is read in as a string with the newline removed.
> >>
> >>     Each line is parsed into a list with TAB as a delimiter.
> >>     code:
> >>       vals = line.split('\t')
> >>
> >>     It is expected that this line should have 75 TAB characters
> >>     imbedded, and that the resulting list (vals) should have 76 members,
> >>
> >>     An exception is thrown when a line is 'split' into a list
> >>     with only 44 members, and when the exception is thrown,
> >>     I use line.count('\t') to retrieve the number of embedded
> >>     TABS and line.count('\t') returns the number 43.
> >>
> >>     Visual Inspection:
> >>           If I look at this line in an editor that allows
> >>           TABS to be visible, I can manually count 75 TAB characters.
> >>
> >>     Alternative Methods:
> >>           This service was prototyped in another
> >>           programming language (rebol) and all lines are
> >>           being split successfully, finding 75 TABS and returning
> >>           a list with 75 members.
> >            a list with *76* members...
> >>
> >>    I'd welcome comments, suggestions on this matter. I'm not about
> >>    to get goofy and claim I've found a bug in python, I'm guessing
> >>    that I should be using a more pythonesque approach to parsing
> >>    these lines.
> >>
> >> thanks
> >> tim
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