I have taken the code and gone a little further, but I need to be able to
protect myself against commas and single quotes in names.
How is it the best to do this?
so in my file I had on line 44 this trainer name.
"Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes"
and in line 95 this horse name.
Inz'n'out
this throws of my capturing correct item 9. How do I protect against this?
Here is current code.
import re
from sys import argv
SCRIPT, FILENAME = argv
def out_file_name(file_name):
"""take an input file and keep the name with appended _clean"""
file_parts = file_name.split(".",)
output_file = file_parts[0] + '_clean.' + file_parts[1]
return output_file
def race_table(text_file):
"""utility to reorganise poorly made csv entry"""
input_table = [[item.strip(' "') for item in record.split(',')]
for record in text_file.splitlines()]
# At this point look at input_table to find the record indices
output_table = []
for record in input_table:
if record[0] == 'Meeting':
meeting = record[3]
elif record[0] == 'Race':
date = record[13]
race = record[1]
elif record[0] == 'Horse':
number = record[1]
name = record[2]
results = record[9]
res_split = re.split('[- ]', results)
starts = res_split[0]
wins = res_split[1]
seconds = res_split[2]
thirds = res_split[3]
prizemoney = res_split[4]
trainer = record[4]
location = record[5]
print(name, wins, seconds)
output_table.append((meeting, date, race, number, name,
starts, wins, seconds, thirds, prizemoney,
trainer, location))
return output_table
MY_FILE = out_file_name(FILENAME)
# with open(FILENAME, 'r') as f_in, open(MY_FILE, 'w') as f_out:
# for line in race_table(f_in.readline()):
# new_row = line
with open(FILENAME, 'r') as f_in, open(MY_FILE, 'w') as f_out:
CONTENT = f_in.read()
# print(content)
FILE_CONTENTS = race_table(CONTENT)
# print new_name
f_out.write(str(FILE_CONTENTS))
if __name__ == '__main__':
pass
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