if this is a valid tab-seperated file, you could try parsing it using csv
module with dialect set to '\t' or 'excel-tab' maybe?
shreyas
On Feb 19, 2014, at 5:43 PM, "kamalakar06 ." <foxrun2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a file like this(Tabular data) :
>
> 0 1 CEN/4 1.0000e3 3.000e3 4.000e-3
> 1.000e-3 3.000e3 5.000e3
>
> 11 2.000e3 3.000e4 6.000e3
> 1.000e4 1.000e4 1.000e5
>
> 12 1.00e4 1.000e5 1.000e6
> 2.00e4 2.000e5 1.000e4
>
> 0 2 CEN/4 1.0000e3 3.000e3 4.000e-3
> 1.000e-3 3.000e3 5.000e3
>
> 41 2.000e3 3.000e4 6.000e3
> 1.000e4 1.000e4 1.000e5
>
> 50 1.00e4 1.000e5 1.000e6
> 2.00e4 2.000e5 1.000e4
>
>
>
> I want to extract the data column wise. How do i do that
>
> My code is like this :
>
> import os
>
> f1=open('newdata1.txt','w')
> L = []
> for index, line in enumerate(open('Trial_1.txt','r')):
> #print index
> if index < 0: #skip first 5 lines
> continue
> else:
> line =line.split()
> L.append('%s\t%s\t %s\t %s\t%s\n' %(line[0],
> line[1],line[2],line[3],line[4]))
>
>
> f1.writelines(L)
>
> f1.close()
>
>
>
> Output looks like this:
>
> 0 1 CEN/4 1.0000e3 3.000e3
> 1.000e-3 3.000e3 5.000e3
>
>
> Now the code is not extracting the column data properly,since there is tab
> space after first line . How to give tab space in python wherever space is
> there to extract the data properly.Where to modify my code.
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