On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:05:46 +0100, Hanna Michelsen <hannaro...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
I am brand new to python and I love it, but I've been having some trouble
with a file parser that I've been working on. It contains lines that
start
with a name and then continue with names, nicknames and phone numbers of
people associated with that name. I need to create a list of the names of
people associated with each singular person (the first name in each
line).
Each name/phone number is separated by a tab but if someone doesn't have
a
nickname there are two tabs between their name and number.
I've been trying to figure out how to test for two tabs, skip over these
people and move onto the next name but I just can't figure out how that
will
work in python.
You might find the csv module in the standard library does a lot of the
hard work for you: http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html
You can define yourself a reader that splits the input on tabs, and
then see how long the rows it returns are. Something like this
(untested):
import csv
for row in csv.reader(open("phone_numbers.txt", "rb"), delimiter='\t'):
if len(row) > 1:
# Do your stuff
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