[Tutor] File IO

[Mike Haft]

I did that and got this:

Here goes
Enter filename:
Name:LAU73M.MET
Line too short Monthly Weather Data, LAU73M.MET, converted from:

Line too short BAD LAUCHSTAEDT; DAILY METEOROLOGICAL DATA FOR
01/01/1973-31/12/1973

Line too short
**********************************************************************

['DEWPCALCULATEDHUMID', 'RAINAVTEMPEVAPW', '22.50.311.9', '16.11.818.1',
'16.44.836.8', '19.55.945.5', '36.113.283.0', '36.016.9105.7',
'37.718.298.6', '29.318.297.9', '27.014.858.7', '57.67.631.3',
'23.43.919.1', '14.00.712.5']
might work

Its worth pointing out that there are more than eight fields in my actual
files, I'm using a shorter version just to test stuff on. Actual fields
are:

MONTH    RAIN  AVTEMP     S10        RAD          SUN    WIND   EVAPW  
EVAPG   EVAPS   HUMID     VAP    DEWP

There are 13 so I'll have a play with that for the moment.

Thanks for the help

Mike


> At 01:34 PM 11/3/2005, Michael Haft wrote:
>>Hello,
>>      I tried the following code:
>>
>>def readSOMNETM(inputName):
>>     input = open(inputName, "r")
>>     result = []
>>     for line in input:
>>         fields = line.split()
>
>            # add this; it will show you what line(s) have less than 8
> fields
>            if len(fields) < 8:
>                print "Line too short", line
>                continue
>
>>         data = fields[1] + fields[2] + fields[7]
>>         result.append(data)
>>     input.close()