Hey, gang, I've got a problem here that I'm sure a handful of you will know how
to solve. I've got about 6 *.csv files that I am trying to open; change the
header names (to get rid of spaces); add two new columns, which are just the
results of a string.split() command; drop the column I just split; and then
finally export to *.txt files. Here's the code I'm using:
import os
import csv
fileHandle = 'Path/To/Data'
varNames =
'ID\tCaseNum\tDate\tTime\tBlock\tIUCR\tPrimaryType\tDescription\tLocDesc\tArrest\tDomestic\tBeat\tDistrict\tWard\tCommArea\tFBICode\tXCoord\tYCoord\tYear\tUpdatedOn\tLat\tLong\tLoc\n'
for csvFile in os.listdir(fileHandle):
outFile = open(fileHandle + os.path.splitext(csvFile)[0] + '.txt', 'w')
inFile = open(fileHandle + csvFile, 'rb')
reader = csv.reader(inFile, delimiter=',')
rowNum = 0
for row in reader:
if rowNum == 0:
outFile.write(varNames)
rowNum += 1
else:
date, time = row[2].split()
row.insert(3, date)
row.insert(4, time)
row.remove(row[2])
outFile.write('\t'.join(row) + '\n')
outFile.close()
inFile.close()
The issue I'm having is that the *.txt files I'm generating are empty. I assume
some unraised error is being thrown, but I'm new to Python and am self taught,
so I don't know where to look or how to troubleshoot.
When I run the code on just one file and print the output instead of writing
it, it looks exactly like what I'd want. So I'm at a loss for where the problem
is.
Any help is appreciated!
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