Dear group, I have written a small piece of code that takes a file and selects the columns that I am interested in and checks the value of the column on a condition (value that eqauls 25) and then write it the to another file.
Code: import sys from string import split import string print "enter the file name" ### Takes the file name### psl = sys.stdin.readline() ### psl has the file object### f2 = sys.stdout.write("File name to write") def extCor(psl): ''' This function, splits the file and writes the desired columns to to another file only if the first column value equals 25.''' str_psl = psl.split('\n') str_psl = str_psl[5:] for ele in range(len(str_psl)): cols = split(str_psl[ele],'\t') des_cols = cols[0]+'\t'+cols[1]+'\t'+cols[8]+'\t'+cols[9]+'\t'+cols[11]+'\t'+cols[12]+'\t'+cols[13]+'\t'+cols[15]+'\t'+cols[16]+'\t'+cols[17]) if cols[0] == 25: '''This condition checks if the first column value == 25, then it writes it to the file, if not then it does not''' f2.write(des_cols) f2.write("\n") extCor(psl) Question: when i give it the file name that it should parse, I do not get to asked the file name i am interested in it gives me nothing. Please help me. Thanks K __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor