On Dec 21, 2:01 am, Alexander Kapps <alex.ka...@web.de> wrote: > On 20.12.2011 22:04, Nick Dokos wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >>> I have a text file containing such data ; > > >>> A B C > >>> ------------------------------------------------------- > >>> -2.0100e-01 8.000e-02 8.000e-05 > >>> -2.0000e-01 0.000e+00 4.800e-04 > >>> -1.9900e-01 4.000e-02 1.600e-04 > > >>> But I only need Section B, and I need to change the notation to ; > > >>> 8.000e-02 = 0.08 > >>> 0.000e+00 = 0.00 > >>> 4.000e-02 = 0.04 > > Does it have to be python? If not, I'd go with something similar to > > > sed 1,2d foo.data | awk '{printf("%.2f\n", $2);}' > > Why sed and awk: > > awk 'NR>2 {printf("%.2f\n", $2);}' data.txt > > And in Python: > > f = open("data.txt") > f.readline() # skip header > f.readline() # skip header > for line in f: > print "%02s" % float(line.split()[1])
@Jerome ; Your suggestion provided floating point error, it might need some slight modificiation. @Nick ; Sorry mate, it needs to be in Python. But I noted solution in case if I need for another case. @Alexander ; Works as expected. Thank you all for the replies. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list