Re: Newby Question for reading a file

2009-02-19 Thread Steve Holden
alex23 wrote: > On Feb 20, 5:38 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> Yes you can get portions of the line by slicing: >> >> for line in open("infile"): >> if line[8:18] != line[18:28]: >> print line, > > You can also name the slices, which makes the code more clear (IMO): >

Re: Newby Question for reading a file

2009-02-19 Thread alex23
On Feb 20, 5:38 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Yes you can get portions of the line by slicing: > > for line in open("infile"): >     if line[8:18] != line[18:28]: >             print line, You can also name the slices, which makes the code more clear (IMO): endda = slice(8,18) begda

Re: Newby Question for reading a file

2009-02-19 Thread steven.oldner
On Feb 19, 1:44 pm, Curt Hash wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, steven.oldner > wrote: > > > On Feb 19, 12:40 pm, Mike Driscoll wrote: > > > On Feb 19, 12:32 pm, "steven.oldner" wrote: > > > > > Simple question but I haven't found an answer.  I program in ABAP, and > > > > in ABAP you

Re: Newby Question for reading a file

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Otten
steven.oldner wrote: > On Feb 19, 12:40 pm, Mike Driscoll wrote: >> On Feb 19, 12:32 pm, "steven.oldner" wrote: >> >> > Simple question but I haven't found an answer.  I program in ABAP, and >> > in ABAP you define the data structure of the file and move the file >> > line into the structure, an

Re: Newby Question for reading a file

2009-02-19 Thread Curt Hash
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, steven.oldner wrote: > > On Feb 19, 12:40 pm, Mike Driscoll wrote: > > On Feb 19, 12:32 pm, "steven.oldner" wrote: > > > > > Simple question but I haven't found an answer. I program in ABAP, and > > > in ABAP you define the data structure of the file and move t

Re: Newby Question for reading a file

2009-02-19 Thread steven.oldner
On Feb 19, 12:40 pm, Mike Driscoll wrote: > On Feb 19, 12:32 pm, "steven.oldner" wrote: > > > Simple question but I haven't found an answer.  I program in ABAP, and > > in ABAP you define the data structure of the file and move the file > > line into the structure, and then do something to the fi

Re: Newby Question for reading a file

2009-02-19 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Feb 19, 12:32 pm, "steven.oldner" wrote: > Simple question but I haven't found an answer.  I program in ABAP, and > in ABAP you define the data structure of the file and move the file > line into the structure, and then do something to the fields.  That's > my mental reference. > > How do I sep