[Tutor] extract specific column
Dave Angel
d at davea.name
Wed Oct 12 23:16:09 CEST 2011
On 10/12/2011 03:59 PM, Anna Olofsson wrote:
>
(PLEASE don't top-post. And don't start multiple similar threads a
couple of hours apart. Send your message as text without tons of blank
lines, and don't assume the attachments will make it. In my case, I
haven't a clue to what the file looks like.)
> From: olofsson_anna585 at hotmail.com
> To: tutor at python.org
> Subject: FW: [Tutor] extract specific column
> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:59:34 +0200
>
>
>
> The thing is, I don't know where to start. I know how to open the attached file, but I don't know how to work inside the file. Is this a csv file? Do I need to use a split function? In what way should I look at the file? As a string? As lines?
>
If you included about 5 lines of the file in your message, we might have
a clue. When I saw the original message, I was going to respond with a
message about using [col, col+1], which would give you one character
from each line.
--
DaveA
More information about the Tutor
mailing list