> lines = open('your_file.txt').readlines()[:4]
> print lines
> print map(len, lines)
gave me:
['\xef\xbb\xbf200-720-7 69-93-2\n', 'kyselina mo\xc4\x8dov
\xc3\xa1 C5H4N4O3\n', '\n', '200-001-8\t50-00-0\n']
[28, 32, 1, 18]
I think it means that I'm still at option 3. I got the line by line
part. My code is a lot cleaner now:
import codecs
path = "c:\\text_samples\\chem_1_utf8.txt"
path2 = "c:\\text_samples\\chem_2.txt"
input = codecs.open(path, 'r','utf8')
output = codecs.open(path2, 'w', 'utf8')
for line in input:
tokens = line.strip().split()
tokens[2:-1] = [u' '.join(tokens[2:-1])] #this doesn't seem to
combine the files correctly
file = u'|'.join(tokens) #this does put '|' in
between
print file + u'\n'
output.write(file + u'\r\n')
input.close()
output.close()
my sample input file looks like this( not organized,as you see it):
200-720-7 69-93-2
kyselina mocová C5H4N4O3
200-001-8 50-00-0
formaldehyd CH2O
200-002-3
50-01-1
guanidínium-chlorid CH5N3.ClH
etc...
and after the program I get:
200-720-7|69-93-2|
kyselina|mocová||C5H4N4O3
200-001-8|50-00-0|
formaldehyd|CH2O|
200-002-3|
50-01-1|
guanidínium-chlorid|CH5N3.ClH|
etc...
So, I am sort of back at the start again.
If I add:
tokens = line.strip().split()
for token in tokens:
print token
I get all the single tokens, which I thought I could then put
together, except when I did:
for token in tokens:
s = u'|'.join(token)
print s
I got ?|2|0|0|-|7|2|0|-|7, etc...
How can I join these together into nice neat little lines? When I try
to store the tokens in a list, the tokens double and I don't know
why. I can work on getting the chemical names together after...baby
steps, or maybe I am just missing something obvious. The first two
numbers will always be the same three digits-three digits-one digit
and then two digits-two digits-one digit. This seems to be on the
only pattern.
My intuition tells me that I need to add an if statement that says, if
the first two numbers follow the pattern, then continue, if they don't
(ie a chemical name was accidently split apart) then the third entry
needs to be put together. Something like
if tokens[1] and tokens[2] startswith('pattern') == true
tokens[2] = join(tokens[2]:tokens[3])
token[3] = token[4]
del token[4]
but the code isn't right...any ideas?
Again, thanks so much. I've gone to http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ and I have
a couple O'Reilly books, but they don't seem to have a straightforward
example for this kind of text manipulation.
Patrick
On Oct 14, 11:17 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 14, 11:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I started Python just a little while ago and I am stuck on something
> > that is really simple, but I just can't figure out.
>
> > Essentially I need to take a text document with some chemical
> > information in Czech and organize it into another text file. The
> > information is always EINECS number, CAS, chemical name, and formula
> > in tables. I need to organize them into lines with | in between. So
> > it goes from:
>
> > 200-763-1 71-73-8
> > nátrium-tiopentál C11H18N2O2S.Na to:
>
> > 200-763-1|71-73-8|nátrium-tiopentál|C11H18N2O2S.Na
>
> > but if I have a chemical like: kyselina močová
>
> > I get:
> > 200-720-7|69-93-2|kyselina|močová
> > |C5H4N4O3|200-763-1|71-73-8|nátrium-tiopentál
>
> > and then it is all off.
>
> > How can I get Python to realize that a chemical name may have a space
> > in it?
>
> Your input file could be in one of THREE formats:
> (1) fields are separated by TAB characters (represented in Python by
> the escape sequence '\t', and equivalent to '\x09')
> (2) fields are fixed width and padded with spaces
> (3) fields are separated by a random number of whitespace characters
> (and can contain spaces).
>
> What makes you sure that you have format 3? You might like to try
> something like
> lines = open('your_file.txt').readlines()[:4]
> print lines
> print map(len, lines)
> This will print a *precise* representation of what is in the first
> four lines, plus their lengths. Please show us the output.
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