Here you can find an improved version:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/498093
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"James Stroud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am looking for python code useful to process
>> tables that are in ASCII text. The code must
>> determine where are the columns (fields).
>> Concerned tables for my application a
My version, not much tested. It probably doesn't work well for tables
with few rows. It finds the most frequent word beginnings, and then
splits the data according to them.
data = """\
44544 ipod apple black 102
GFGFHHF-12 unknown thing bizar brick mortar tbc
45fjk
James Stroud wrote:
> indices = [t for t in zip(indices[::2],indices[1::2])]
(Artefact of cut-and-paste.)
Make that:
indices = zip(indices[::2],indices[1::2])
James
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for python code useful to process
> tables that are in ASCII text. The code must
> determine where are the columns (fields).
> Concerned tables for my application are various,
> but their columns are not very complicated
> to locate for a human, b
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for python code useful to process
> tables that are in ASCII text. The code must
> determine where are the columns (fields).
> Concerned tables for my application are various,
> but their columns are not very complicated
> to locate for a human, b
