mwt wrote: > Hi - > I'm working on parsing a file that has data that looks like the sample > below. > > Here's a sample of the data: > > Index 4: folding now > server: 171.65.199.158:8080; project: 1809 > Folding: run 17, clone 19, generation 35; benchmark 669; misc: 500, > 400 > issue: Wed Mar 15 18:32:19 2006; begin: Wed Mar 15 18:32:25 2006 > due: Fri Apr 28 19:32:25 2006 (44 days) > core URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~pande/Linux/x86/Core_82.fah > CPU: 1,0 x86; OS: 4,0 Linux > assignment info (le): Wed Mar 15 18:32:19 2006; A0F3AAD2 > CS: 171.65.103.100; P limit: 5241856 > user: MWT; team: 0; ID: 1A2BFB777775B7B; mach ID: 2 > work/wudata_04.dat file size: 82814; WU type: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Average download rate 97.552 KB/s (u=4); upload rate 38.718 KB/s (u=3) > Performance fraction 0.950453 (u=3)
You don't say what data you are trying to extract. If it is key:value pairs where the key is everything before the first colon, just use line.split(':', 1) to split on just the first colon. Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list