On 03Jun2015 22:37, richard kappler <[email protected]> wrote:
Figured out the string delimiters problem, thanks for all the help. Now I've run into another.I've used the re.finditer that I think it was Peter suggested. So I have: for line in file: s = line t = [m.start() for m in re.finditer(r"]", s)] q = len(t) which works fine, in testing it finds the number and position of the ]'s in any line I throw at it. I then wrote a series of if/elif statements based on q, in other words if q == 1: do something elif q == 2: do something else elif q == 3: do a third thing else: pass as I looked through enough example to figure out that the most ]'s I can have is 3, but the pass is there just in case. I keep getting a list index out of range error, and my best guess is that it's because t and q are set on the first line read, not each line read, is that right? If not, what might be the problem and either way, how do I fix it?
Please post a self contained example (i.e. small complete code, not snippets) and a transcribe of the full error message with stack backtrace. What you have above is not enough to figure out what is going wrong. If what you display above is accurate then t and q are set for every line read.
Another remark, what is the use of your "else: pass" code? Normally one would put some action here, such as raising an exception for the unhandled value or issuing a warning.
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