On 2010-04-08, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Even in 2010, there are plenty of programs that export data using fixed
> width fields.
If you want the columns to line up as the data changes, that's pretty
much the only way to go.
--
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! But was he
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 01:16, Kushal Kumaran
wrote:
>
> Is there any particular reason you absolutely must extract the status
> message? If you already have a list of possible status messages, you
> could just test which one of those is present in the line...
Yes and no...
Mostly, it's for the
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:57:31 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> On Apr 7, 9:51 pm, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>
> BTW, I don't know how you got 'True' here.
>
>> >>> re.split(' {2,}', s) == [x for x in s.split(' ') if x.strip()]
>> True
It was a copy and paste from the interactive interpreter. Her
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:10 AM, J wrote:
> Can someone make me un-crazy?
>
> I have a bit of code that right now, looks like this:
>
> status = getoutput('smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda').splitlines()[6]
> status = re.sub(' (?= )(?=([^"]*"[^"]*")*[^"]*$)', ":",status)
> print status
>
On Apr 7, 9:51 pm, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
BTW, I don't know how you got 'True' here.
> >>> re.split(' {2,}', s) == [x for x in s.split(' ') if x.strip()]
> True
You must not have s set up to be the string given by the OP. I just
realized there was an error in my non-regexp example, that actua
On Apr 7, 9:51 pm, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> This is one of the reasons we're so often suspicious of re solutions:
>
> >>> s = '# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00%'
> >>> tre = Timer("re.split(' {2,}', s)",
>
> ... "import re; from __main__ import s")>>> tsplit = Timer("[x f
On 2010-04-08, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> Sorry, my eyes completely missed your one-liner, so my criticism about
> not posting a solution was unwarranted. I don't think you and I read
> the problem the same way (which is probably why I didn't notice your
> solution -- because it wasn't solving the
On Apr 7, 9:51 pm, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:03:47 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> > BTW, although I find it annoying when people say "don't do that" when
> > "that" is a perfectly good thing to do, and although I also find it
> > annoying when people tell you what not to do w
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 22:45, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> When I saw "And I am interested in the string that appears in the
> third column, which changes as the test runs and then completes" I
> assumed that, not only could that string change, but so could the one
> before it.
>
> I guess my base ass
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:03:47 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> BTW, although I find it annoying when people say "don't do that" when
> "that" is a perfectly good thing to do, and although I also find it
> annoying when people tell you what not to do without telling you what
> *to* do,
Grant did giv
On Apr 7, 9:36 pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-04-08, Patrick Maupin wrote:> On Apr 7, 4:47?pm,
> Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> On 2010-04-07, J wrote:
>
> >> > Can someone make me un-crazy?
>
> >> Definitely. ?Regex is driving you crazy, so don't use a regex.
>
> >> ? inputString = "# 1 ?Short
On 2010-04-08, James Stroud wrote:
> Patrick Maupin wrote:
>> BTW, although I find it annoying when people say "don't do that" when
>> "that" is a perfectly good thing to do, and although I also find it
>> annoying when people tell you what not to do without telling you what
>> *to* do, and althou
On 2010-04-08, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> On Apr 7, 4:47?pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2010-04-07, J wrote:
>>
>> > Can someone make me un-crazy?
>>
>> Definitely. ?Regex is driving you crazy, so don't use a regex.
>>
>> ? inputString = "# 1 ?Short offline ? ? ? Completed without error ? ? 00% ?
On Apr 7, 9:02 pm, James Stroud
wrote:
> Patrick Maupin wrote:
> > BTW, although I find it annoying when people say "don't do that" when
> > "that" is a perfectly good thing to do, and although I also find it
> > annoying when people tell you what not to do without telling you what
> > *to* do, an
Patrick Maupin wrote:
BTW, although I find it annoying when people say "don't do that" when
"that" is a perfectly good thing to do, and although I also find it
annoying when people tell you what not to do without telling you what
*to* do, and although I find the regex solution to this problem to
On Apr 7, 7:49 pm, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> On Apr 7, 4:40 pm, J wrote:
>
>
>
> > Can someone make me un-crazy?
>
> > I have a bit of code that right now, looks like this:
>
> > status = getoutput('smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda').splitlines()[6]
> > status = re.sub(' (?= )(?=([^"]*"[^"]*")
On Apr 7, 4:47 pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-04-07, J wrote:
>
> > Can someone make me un-crazy?
>
> Definitely. Regex is driving you crazy, so don't use a regex.
>
> inputString = "# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00%
> 679 -"
>
> print ' '.join(input
On Apr 7, 4:40 pm, J wrote:
> Can someone make me un-crazy?
>
> I have a bit of code that right now, looks like this:
>
> status = getoutput('smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda').splitlines()[6]
> status = re.sub(' (?= )(?=([^"]*"[^"]*")*[^"]*$)', ":",status)
> print status
>
> Basicall
On 2010-04-07, J wrote:
> Can someone make me un-crazy?
Definitely. Regex is driving you crazy, so don't use a regex.
inputString = "# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00%
679 -"
print ' '.join(inputString.split()[4:-3])
> So any ideas on what the best
Can someone make me un-crazy?
I have a bit of code that right now, looks like this:
status = getoutput('smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda').splitlines()[6]
status = re.sub(' (?= )(?=([^"]*"[^"]*")*[^"]*$)', ":",status)
print status
Basically, it pulls the first actual line of data fr
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