Cédric Lucantis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Le Wednesday 02 July 2008 01:16:30 Ben Keshet, vous avez écrit :
> > I am trying to write a script that will search for the second and
> > third appearance of the symbol '@' in a file, will read a random
> > line between them, and write the line into a new file.
>
> If the file you're reading is not too big, you can use
> file.readlines() which read all the files and returns its content as
> a list of lines.
Better is to iterate over the file object, getting a line each time.
This works regardless of the size of the file, because it doesn't
attempt to read the entirety of a large file in at once.
> text.find('@') will return the position of the first occurence of
> '@', or a negative value if not found.
If one is interested only in *whether* text is contained within a
string (and is uninterested in its position), the 'in' operator
returns a boolean value.
Untried code:
import random
separator = "@"
interesting_lines = []
input_file = open("foo.txt")
seen_separator_count = 0
for line in input_file:
if separator in line:
# Count this separator, but don't keep the line.
seen_separator_count += 1
continue
if seen_separator_count == 2:
# We have seen exactly two lines with separators,
# so we're interested in the current line.
interesting_lines.append(line)
if seen_separator_count >= 3:
# After seeing three lines with separators, stop reading.
break
chosen_line = random.choice(interesting_lines)
output_file = open("bar.txt", 'w')
output_file.write(chosen_line)
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