Hi Guys, It has been point out that it is difficult for anyone to provide suggestions if I do not outline more clearly my input file and an example of what I wish to do with it (Thanks Rory!).
I mentioned it in this thread (Is creating different threads bad etiquette? If so, lesson learned!): http://old.nabble.com/Parsing-file-format-to-ensure-file-meets-criteria-to26837682.html Hope you guys may have some suggestions as I am stumped! Thanks, Seafoid :-) seafoid wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > When python reads in a file, can lines be referred to via an index? > > Example: > > for line in file: > if line[0] == '0': > a.write(line) > > This works, however, I am unsure if line[0] refers only to the first line > or the first character in all lines. > > Is there an easy way to refer to a line with the first character being a > single letter that you know? > > Thanks in advance, > Seafoid. > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Line-indexing-in-Python-tp26845253p26847598.html Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
