On 6/15/2010 9:28 PM, 187braintr...@berkeley.edu wrote:
I am trying to write a program in Python that will edit .txt log files that contain regression output from R. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I once wrote programs (in C, Python should be easier) to process bmdp statistical output. I usually took a state machine approach, where each state corresponded to a block of output. The state machine was hard coded rather than table driven.
For each block, read a line, analyze it to determine whether it signals a transition, and process as appropriate to the state.
When states followed in strict sequence A > B > C, etc, the code was pretty easy, with a block of code, typically with a loop, for each state. When loops were possible, then a master loop with 'if state is A:' conditionals for each.
Good luck. Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
