Dear All This is my problem again , I tried to sort it out , but i couldn't , I am reading data from file using readlines , my input like :
0 1 2 4 1 2 4 2 3 3 4 What i am doing is , starting with the first element in the first line ( which is 0 in this case )and do search in the other lines , if i found another 0 , i will save (print out) all the elements except 0 , (in this is case i have no 0 elsewhere) so i will print only 0. Now do search by the 2nd element in the first line (which is 1 in this case) , in the 2nd line we have 1 , so i should save(print out) all elements except 1 which are 2 4 , and so on for the rest of the first line , and for the rest of the file , my out put should be 0 1 2 4 2 1 4 3 4 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 3 2 3 4 3 4 I managed to do all these things , but i did it in the way that i am reading my data as strings ( no space between numbers) something like 0124 124 23 34 what i would like to know or to do is , how can i deal with my data after reading it as strings(i need the space between numbers) because i had problem when dealing with number larger than 9 , example : 0 1 5 9 1 12 10 4 6 7 10 9 so , when i remove the space between numbers , i loose all my data , i mean it will look like 0159 11210 467 509 This is my code : def belong_to(x,a): c=-1 for i in range(len(a)-1): if x==int(a[i]): c=i return c def list_belong(x,a): # This function to check if this line c=-1 # line has been searched before or not for i in range(len(a)): if a[i]==x: c=1 break return c x=0 occur=[] in_file=open('data.dat','r') out_file=open('result.dat','w') fileList = in_file.readlines() for k in fileList: v=k occur.append(k) n=len(v)-1 for i in range(n): temp=int(v[i]) print temp, out_file.write(str(temp)) for line in fileList: if v!=line: if list_belong(line,occur)!=1: if belong_to(temp,line) != -1: j=belong_to(temp,line) for i in range(len(line)-1): if i!=j: print line[i], out_file.write(line[i]) print out_file.write("\n") out_file.close() in_file.close() Thank you all -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list