[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I know that i can do readline() from a file object.
> However, how can I read till a specific seperator?
>
> for exmple,
> if my files are
>
> name
> profession
> id
> #
> name2
> profession3
> id2
>
> I would like to read this file as a record.
> I can do this in perl by defining a record seperator;
> is there an equivalent in python?
not really; you have to do it manually.
if the file isn't too large, consider reading all of it, and splitting on the
separator:
for record in file.read().split(separator):
print record # process record
if you're using a line-oriented separator, like in your example, tools like
itertools.groupby can be quite handy:
from itertools import groupby
def is_separator(line):
return line[:1] == "#"
for sep, record in groupby(file, is_separator):
if not sep:
print list(record) # process record
or you could just spell things out:
record = []
for line in file:
if line[0] == "#":
if record:
print record # process record
record = []
else:
record.append(line)
if record:
print record # process the last record, if any
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