On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Josep M. Fontana <josep.m.font...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Then I have another text file containing information about the century each > one of the texts was written. This document has the following structure: > > A-01, 1278 > A-02, 1501 > ... > N-09, 1384 > > To process this, I'd check out the CSV (Comma Separated Values) module. What I would like to do is to write a little script that would do the > following: > > . Read each row of the text containing information about the centuries each > one of the texts was written > . Change the name of the file whose name starts with the code in the first > column in the following way > > A-01-namex.txt --> A-01-namex_13-2.txt > > Where 13-1 means: 13th 2nd half. Obviously this information would com > from the second column in the text: 1278 (the first two digits + 1 = > century; if the 3rd and 4th digits > 50, then 2; if < 50 then 1) > > Then in the same script or in a new one, I would need to open each one of > the texts and add information about the century they were written on the > first line preceded by some symbol (e.g @13-2) > > I've found a lot of information about changing file names (so I know that I > should be importing the os module), but none of the examples that were cited > involved getting the information for the file changing operation from the > contents of a document. If it were me, I'd build a string using the information you want, then add ".txt" or whatever to the end of it, then use the os module to change the filenames. -- Greg Bair gregb...@gmail.com
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