I did that and got this: Here goes Enter filename: Name:LAU73M.MET Line too short Monthly Weather Data, LAU73M.MET, converted from:
Line too short BAD LAUCHSTAEDT; DAILY METEOROLOGICAL DATA FOR 01/01/1973-31/12/1973 Line too short ********************************************************************** ['DEWPCALCULATEDHUMID', 'RAINAVTEMPEVAPW', '22.50.311.9', '16.11.818.1', '16.44.836.8', '19.55.945.5', '36.113.283.0', '36.016.9105.7', '37.718.298.6', '29.318.297.9', '27.014.858.7', '57.67.631.3', '23.43.919.1', '14.00.712.5'] might work Its worth pointing out that there are more than eight fields in my actual files, I'm using a shorter version just to test stuff on. Actual fields are: MONTH RAIN AVTEMP S10 RAD SUN WIND EVAPW EVAPG EVAPS HUMID VAP DEWP There are 13 so I'll have a play with that for the moment. Thanks for the help Mike > At 01:34 PM 11/3/2005, Michael Haft wrote: >>Hello, >> I tried the following code: >> >>def readSOMNETM(inputName): >> input = open(inputName, "r") >> result = [] >> for line in input: >> fields = line.split() > > # add this; it will show you what line(s) have less than 8 > fields > if len(fields) < 8: > print "Line too short", line > continue > >> data = fields[1] + fields[2] + fields[7] >> result.append(data) >> input.close() _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
