On 09/09/2011 02:09, papu wrote:
Hello, I have a data file (un-structed messy file) from which I have to scrub specific list of words (delete words).Here is what I am doing but with no result: infile = "messy_data_file.txt" outfile = "cleaned_file.txt" delete_list = ["word_1","word_2"....,"word_n"] new_file = [] fin=open(infile,"") fout = open(outfile,"w+") for line in fin: for word in delete_list: line.replace(word, "") fout.write(line) fin.close() fout.close() I have put the code above in a file. When I execute it, I dont see the result file. I am not sure what the error is. Please let me know what I am doing wrong.
The .replace method _returns_ its result. Strings are immutable, they can't be changed in-place. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
