"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "manstey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a text file with about 450,000 lines. Each line has 4-5 fields,
> > separated by various delimiters (spaces, @, etc).
> >
> >
> You asked about data structures specifically. The core collections in
> python are lists, dicts, and more recently, sets.
(oops, also forgot tuples - very much like lists, but immutable)
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"manstey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a text file with about 450,000 lines. Each line has 4-5 fields,
> separated by various delimiters (spaces, @, etc).
>
> I want to load in the text file and then run routines on it to produce
> 2-3 additional fiel
"manstey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a text file with about 450,000 lines. Each line has 4-5 fields,
> separated by various delimiters (spaces, @, etc).
>
> I want to load in the text file and then run routines on it to produce
> 2-3 additional fiel
Hi Matthew,
>From your example, it is hard to work out what character or character
string is a separator, and what string needs to become a separate word
when seen in the original file.
In the example below you need to learn about regular expressions. the
split is based on the two RE's held in var
Hi,
I have a text file with about 450,000 lines. Each line has 4-5 fields,
separated by various delimiters (spaces, @, etc).
I want to load in the text file and then run routines on it to produce
2-3 additional fields.
I am a complete newbie to Python but I have the docs and done some
experiment
