text file parsing (awk - python)

Hi list, I have an awk program that parses a text file which I would like to rewrite in python. The text file has multi-line records separated by empty lines and each single-line field has two subfields: node 10 x -1 y 1 node 11 x -2 y 1 node 12 x -3 y 1 and this I would like to parse into a

Re: text file parsing (awk - python)

Daniel Nogradi wrote: I have an awk program that parses a text file which I would like to rewrite in python. The text file has multi-line records separated by empty lines and each single-line field has two subfields: node 10 x -1 y 1 node 11 x -2 y 1 node 12 x -3 y 1 and this

Re: text file parsing (awk - python)

I have an awk program that parses a text file which I would like to rewrite in python. The text file has multi-line records separated by empty lines and each single-line field has two subfields: node 10 x -1 y 1 node 11 x -2 y 1 node 12 x -3 y 1 and this I would

Re: text file parsing (awk - python)

Peter Otten, your solution is very nice, it uses groupby splitting on empty lines, so it doesn't need to read the whole files into memory. But Daniel Nogradi says: But the names of the fields (node, x, y) keeps changing from file to file, even their number is not fixed, sometimes it is (node,