I am a python newbie and I have a problem with writing each record read to a file. The expected output is 10 rows of records, but the actual output of the code below is only one row with a very long record (10 records are lump into one record). Thank you in advance for your help. Here is the code: ****************************************
infile = open('c:/grad3650txt.csv', 'r') outfile = open('c:/idmast01.txt', 'w') a = 1 b = 10 for line in infile.readlines(): if a <= b: c1 = line.find(',',0) ln = line[1:c1] l2 = line.find('"', c1) l2a = l2 - 1 l2c = l2 if line[l2a] == '.': l2b = l2 - 3 if line[l2b] == ' ': mi = line[l2b+1:l2a+1] l2c = l2b else: mi = ' ' l2c = l2 fn = line[c1+2:l2c] c2 = line.find(',', l2) c3 = line.find(',', c2+1) deg = line[c2+1:c3] l5 = len(line) c4 = line.find(',', c3+1) l7 = c3 + 14 if l5 <= l7 or c4 <= l5: l8 = l5 if c4 <= l5: dat = line[c3+1:c4] #----------------------------------- # This is the problem code. Ten records # is lump into 1 row and written # in the output file. # # My expected output is 10 rows. #----------------------------------- info = string.join([fn, mi, ln, deg, dat] outfile.write(info) #---------------------------------- # a = 1 + a else: a = 1 + a infile.close() outfile.close() # ------------------------------------------------ Thank you very much for your help. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list