ferrad wrote: > I have large text files containing text, numbers, and junk. I want to > delete large chunks process other bits, etc, much like I'd do in an > editor, but want to do it automatically. > Question: can I translate these types of rules into programmatical > constructs that Python can use to process these files?
Someone can. ;-) However if the file is structured, awk may be faster, since this sounds like the kind of report generation it was designed for. Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
