En Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:15:16 -0300, Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> On 19/11/2007, Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> How to insert "TER" records recursively, i.e. some thousand fold, in a >> file >> like in the following example? "H2 WAT" is the only constant >> characteristic of >> the line after which to insert "TER"; that distinguishes also for lines > > If every molecule is water, and therefore 3 atoms, you can use this fact > to > insert TER in the right place. You don't need recursion: > > f = open( "atoms.txt", "rt" ) > lineCount = 0 > for line in f.xreadlines( ): > lineCount = lineCount + 1 > print line > if lineCount == 3: > lineCount = 0 > print "TER" > f.close( ) A small variation can handle the original, more generic condition "insert TER after the line containing H2 WAT" f = open("atoms.txt", "r") for line in f: print line if "H2 WAT" in line: print "TER" f.close() (also, note that unless you're using Python 2.2 or earlier, the xreadlines call does no good) -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list