Apologies for not making things clearer last time.
My specific problems are:
why can I not get the readline() or readlines() functions to work, I'm
told they are not defined whenever I try.
Also the following:
if line[:1] == "1":
collects data from month 1, 10, 11, and 12. How do I make the readfile
function I defined count through 1 to 12 and retreive the fields I need?
Can I just use a for loop type of construction and substitute an x
variable where there is curently a [:1] and a "x" i.e.:
if line[:y] == x:
If not why not? What must I do.
Other questions coming soon. Sorry for the vague post earlier,
multitasking isn't my specialty, especially without coffee.
Thanks
Mike
>From the previous post:
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The data in each file looks liek:
MONTH RAIN AVTEMP RAD EVAP
****************************************
1 12.4 12.0 * 10
2 13.9 30.0 * 11
3
etc until month 12
So far all I know how to do in Python looks something like this:
def readInFile(inputName):
input = open(inputName, "r")
result = []
for line in input:
if line[:1] == "1":
fields = line.split()
data = fields[1] + fields[2] + fields[7]
result.append(data)
input.close()
return result
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