Peter Otten, your solution is very nice, it uses groupby splitting on
empty lines, so it doesn't need to read the whole files into memory.
But Daniel Nogradi says:
> But the names of the fields (node, x, y) keeps changing from file to
> file, even their number is not fixed, sometimes it is (node,
> > I have an awk program that parses a text file which I would like to
> > rewrite in python. The text file has multi-line records separated by
> > empty lines and each single-line field has two subfields:
> >
> > node 10
> > x -1
> > y 1
> >
> > node 11
> > x -2
> > y 1
> >
> > node 12
> > x -3
>
Daniel Nogradi wrote:
> I have an awk program that parses a text file which I would like to
> rewrite in python. The text file has multi-line records separated by
> empty lines and each single-line field has two subfields:
>
> node 10
> x -1
> y 1
>
> node 11
> x -2
> y 1
>
> node 12
> x -3
> y
Hi list,
I have an awk program that parses a text file which I would like to
rewrite in python. The text file has multi-line records separated by
empty lines and each single-line field has two subfields:
node 10
x -1
y 1
node 11
x -2
y 1
node 12
x -3
y 1
and this I would like to parse into a l
