Re: remove header line when reading/writing files

2007-10-11 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:52:55 +, RyanL wrote: > I'm a newbie with a large number of data files in multiple > directories. I want to uncompress, read, and copy the contents of > each file into one master data file. The code below seems to be doing > this perfectly. The problem is each of the

Re: remove header line when reading/writing files

2007-10-11 Thread Scott David Daniels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > for zipfile in filelist: > zfiter = iter(gzip.Gzipfile(zipfile,'r')) > zfiter.next() # ignore header line > for i, line in enumerate(fziter): > outfile.write(line) Or even: writes = outfile.write for zipfile in filelist: zfiter = it

Re: remove header line when reading/writing files

2007-10-11 Thread timaranz
On Oct 12, 12:23 pm, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgot the enumerate call of all things > > > for zipfile in filelist: > >for i, line in enumerate(gzip.Gzipfile(zipfile,'r')): > >if i: outfile.write(line) > > Some days, I'm braindead. > > -tkc I would move the 'if' test

Re: remove header line when reading/writing files

2007-10-11 Thread Tim Chase
Forgot the enumerate call of all things > for zipfile in filelist: > for i, line in enumerate(gzip.Gzipfile(zipfile,'r')): > if i: outfile.write(line) Some days, I'm braindead. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: remove header line when reading/writing files

2007-10-11 Thread Tim Chase
> each file into one master data file. The code below seems to be doing > this perfectly. The problem is each of the data files has a header > row in the first line, which I do not want in the master file. How > can I skip that first line when writing to the master file? Any help > is much appr