Uwe: That is what I was expecting, but I do not get that.
I am writing the string to a file. When I view the file I get astr, not
the two records separated by the return.
f = open('text.txt', 'w')
f.write(astr)
yields one string in the file and not two records.
Jeff
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Uwe Grauer wrote:
> Jeff Johnson wrote:
>> I have an import process that takes variable length fields that include
>> spaces delimited by spaces in an ascii stream sprinkled with new lines.
>> I read the file into a string and then split it delimited by spaces
>> into a list and then clean it up looking for various templates in the
>> data. The hard part was easy in Python and it will clean up a
>> relatively large file with blinding speed! I have written the same
>> routine in VFP and it takes considerably longer. That may not surprise
>> you guys, but it surprised me.
>>
>> The problem I am having is that when I convert the list back into a
>> string to write it to a file, I am trying to write a record of data with
>> a new line at the end. My string looks sort of like this:
>>
>> "'field','field','\n','field','field','\n'"
>>
>> I can't seem to be able to get the '\n' to work as a new line. I can't
>> count bytes because the fields are all variable length.
>>
>> Any assistance will be appreciated.
>>
>
> Please explain!
> When i do:
> astr = "'field','field','\n','field','field','\n'"
> print astr
> i get:
> 'field','field','
> ','field','field','
> '
> Isn't that what you want to get?
>
> Uwe
>
>
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