[Tutor] Possible to search text file for multiple string values at once?

[Scott Stueben]

Excellent ideas...thanks to you all for the input.  I will see what I
can work out in the next few days and report back.

:)  Scott

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:16 AM, spir <denis.spir at free.fr> wrote:
> Le Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:45:32 -0600,
> W W <srilyk at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Scott Stueben <sidewalking at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for the help so far - it seems easy enough.  To clarify on the
>> > points you have asked me about:
>> >
>> > A sqlite3 database on my machine would be an excellent idea for
>> > personal use.  I would like to be able to get a functional script for
>> > others on my team to use, so maybe a script or compiled program
>> > (Win32) eventually.
>>
>>
>> As long as everyone on your team has python installed (or as long as python
>> is installed on the machines they'll be using), a functional script would be
>> fairly easy to get rolling. Sqlite is (AFAIK) included with the newer
>> versions of python by default. Heck, it's on the version I have installed on
>> my phone! (Cingular 8525). Simply zipping up the directory should provide an
>> easy enough distribution method. Although, you *could* even write a python
>> script that does the "install" for them.
>>
>>
>> > As for output, I would probably like to return the entire lines that
>> > contain any search results of those strings.  Maybe just output to a
>> > results.txt that would have the entire line of each line that contains
>> > 'Bob', 'John', 'Joe', 'Jim', and or 'Fred'.
>>
>>
>> The simplest method:
>>
>> In [5]: f = open('interculturalinterview2.txt', 'r')
>>
>> In [6]: searchstrings = ('holy', 'hand', 'grenade', 'potato')
>>
>> In [7]: for line in f.readlines():
>>    ...:     for word in searchstrings:
>>    ...:         if word in line:
>>    ...:             print line
>>    ...:
>>    ...:
>> Hana: have a bonfire n candy apples n make potatoes on a car lol!
>>
>> Wayne: potatoes on a car?
>>
>> Hana .: yer lol its fun and they taste nicer lol, you wrap a potato in
>> tinfoil a
>> nd put in on the engine of a car and close the bonnet and have the engine
>> run an
>> d it cooks it in about 30 mins
>>
>>  Speed isn't as important as ease of use, I suppose, since
>> > non-technical people should be able to use it, ideally.
>
> I guess the easiest for your team would be to:
> * let the script write the result lines into a text file
> * let the script open the result in an editor (using module called subprocess)
> * put a link to your script on the desk
>
> ### just an example
> # write to file
> target  = open("target.txt",'w')
> for line in lines:
>        target.write(line)
> target.close()
>
> # open in editor
> import subprocess
> subprocess.call(["gedit","target.txt"])
> print "*** end ***"
>
> denis
>
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