Re: [Tutor] regex and parsing through a semi-csv file

2011-10-25 Thread Mina Nozar
Thank you Ramit. I updated my code since I am running 2.7.1+ on Ubuntu. Best wishes, Mina On 11-10-25 08:02 AM, Prasad, Ramit wrote: f = open(args.fname, 'r') lines = f.readlines() f.close() If you are using Python 2.6+ you can use a context manager to automatically close the file. That way

Re: [Tutor] regex and parsing through a semi-csv file

2011-10-25 Thread Prasad, Ramit
>f = open(args.fname, 'r') >lines = f.readlines() >f.close() If you are using Python 2.6+ you can use a context manager to automatically close the file. That way you never have to worry about closing any files! with open(args.fname, 'r') as f: lines = f.readlines() Ramit Ramit Prasad | J

Re: [Tutor] regex and parsing through a semi-csv file

2011-10-24 Thread Mina Nozar
Hi Marc, Thank you. Following some of your suggestion, the rewrite below worked. I agree with your point on readability over complexity. By grace I meant not convoluted or simpler. That's all. As a beginner, I find not knowing all the existing functions, I end up re-inventing the wheel som

Re: [Tutor] regex and parsing through a semi-csv file

2011-10-19 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote: > This approach also works in the event that the data wasn't all collected in > order - i.e. there might be data for Ag111 followed by U235 followed by > Ag111 again. > > Ahem... Of course, I meant "Ag47 followed by U235 followed by Ag47 agai

Re: [Tutor] regex and parsing through a semi-csv file

2011-10-19 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Mina Nozar wrote: > Now, I would like to parse through this code and fill out 3 lists: 1) > activity_time, 2) activity, 3) error, and plot the activities as a function > of time using matplotlip. My question specifically is on how to parse > through the lines con

Re: [Tutor] regex and parsing through a semi-csv file

2011-10-19 Thread Mina Nozar
Hello Wayne, Thank you for your help and sorry for the delay in the response. I was caught up with other simulation jobs and didn't get around to testing what you suggested until yesterday. On 11-10-05 01:24 PM, Wayne Werner wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Mina Nozar mailto:noz...@tri

Re: [Tutor] regex and parsing through a semi-csv file

2011-10-05 Thread Wayne Werner
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Mina Nozar wrote: > > If there is a more graceful way of doing this, please let me know as well. > I am new to python... > I just glanced through your email, but my initial thought would be to just use regex to collect the entire segment that you're looking for