"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "manstey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a text file with about 450,000 lines. Each line has 4-5 fields,
> > separated by various delimiters (spaces, @, etc).
> >
> >
> You asked about data structures specifically. The core collections in
> python are lists, dicts, and more recently, sets.
(oops, also forgot tuples - very much like lists, but immutable)
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"manstey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a text file with about 450,000 lines. Each line has 4-5 fields,
> separated by various delimiters (spaces, @, etc).
>
> I want to load in the text file and then run routines on it to produce
> 2-3 additional fiel
"manstey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a text file with about 450,000 lines. Each line has 4-5 fields,
> separated by various delimiters (spaces, @, etc).
>
> I want to load in the text file and then run routines on it to produce
> 2-3 additional fiel
Hi Matthew,
>From your example, it is hard to work out what character or character
string is a separator, and what string needs to become a separate word
when seen in the original file.
In the example below you need to learn about regular expressions. the
split is based on the two RE's held in var
