On 5/1/07, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have had the misfortune of having a university Windows machine
garble all the email addresses in my addressbook (a txt file so that I
can use it both on my home Fedora machine and on the university
Windows machines). I figure this is as good a time as any to start
learning python and fix the file. How can I iteriate through a text
file that looks like this:
"=?UTF-8?B?157XqNeZ15Qg15nXoNeY16bXnw==?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"=?UTF-8?B?157XqNenINen15nXmNek15XXkQ==?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"=?UTF-8?B?157XqdeUINem15LXkNeZ?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
and have it return:
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Thanks in advance.
Dotan Cohen
http://lyricslist.com/
http://what-is-what.com/
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Hi Dotan! Welcome to python!
Here is some code that will do what you need. It uses the re module,
which are regular expressions.
# You need to import the module:
import re
# Then you need to read in the file that contains your list.
email_list = open("brokenemails.txt","r")
# We need to generate your regular expression. The grabs anything in
# the file that is between < and >, but it includes the <>
re_mail=re.compile(r"\<(.*)\>")
# Then filter each line of the file through the regex, discarding the
# <> from above, and puts each address into a list.
addresses = [re_mail.search(line).group(1) for line in
email_list.readlines()]
# Now we print them out, comma and newline separated
print ",\n".join(addresses)
Let me know if you need more detail!
Your pal,
Ben
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