On 9/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a text source file of about 20.000 lines.
> >From this file, I like to write the first 5 lines to a new file. Close
> that file, grab the next 5 lines write these to a new file... grabbing
> 5 lines and creating new files until processing of all 20.000 lines is
> done.
> Is there an efficient way to do this in Python?
> In advance, thanks for your help.
>
I have written a working test of this. Here's the basic setup:
open the input file
function newFileName:
generate a filename (starting with 00001.tmp).
If filename exists, increment and test again (0002.tmp and so on).
return fileName
read a line until input file is empty:
test to see whether I have written five lines. If so, get a new
file name, close file, and open new file
write line to file
close output file final time
Once you get some code running, feel free to post it and we'll help.
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