Victor Hooi wrote:
> I'm using grouper() to iterate over a textfile in groups of lines:
>
> def grouper(iterable, n, fillvalue=None):
> "Collect data into fixed-length chunks or blocks"
> # grouper('ABCDEFG', 3, 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx
> args = [iter(iterable)] * n
> return zip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args)
>
> However, I'd also like to know the line-number that I'm up to, for
> printing out in informational or error messages.
>
> Is there a way to use enumerate with grouper to achieve this?
>
> The below won't work, as enumerate will give me the index of the group,
> rather than of the lines themselves:
>
> _BATCH_SIZE = 50
>
> with open(args.input_file, 'r') as f:
> for line_number, chunk in enumerate(grouper(f, _BATCH_SIZE)):
> print(line_number)
>
> I'm thinking I could do something to modify grouper, maybe, but I'm sure
> there's an easier way?
print(line_number * _BATCH_SIZE)
Eureka ;)
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