"Ara Kooser" <[email protected]> wrote
testreader = csv.reader(open(filein))
for row in testreader:
print(row)
The output looks like this:
[]
['----------------------------Distribution of
species----------------------------']
[]
['\t Log Log Log
']
['\tSpecies Molality Activity Molality Activity
Gamma']
[]
['\tOH- 4.121e-06
.489e-06 -5.385 -5.457 -0.072']
How do ignore everything before and after the Distribution of species
You don't tell us how the "after species" is defined but the before bit
can be done with a flag that gets set when you hit the required line:
active = False
for row in testreader:
if not actve and "Distribution" in row: active = True
elif <Whatever detects the end os species>: active = False
else:
process species stuff here
then pull out the species and activties so I can perform calculations on
them? Is csv the best for that or am I better off using split and dumping
into a dictionary? I think I need to specify white space as the
delimiter,
is that correct?
You would need to specify whitespace. But in that case I suspect split
will work just as well. Whether you feed into a dictionary or just index
the list produced by split() depends on exactly what processing you
need to do to the results.
HTH
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Alan Gauld
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