Anna Olofsson wrote:
The thing is, I don't know where to start. I know how to open the
attached file, but I don't know how to work inside the file. Is this
a csv file? Do I need to use a split function? In what way should I
look at the file? As a string? As lines?
It looks like a CSV file. Try opening it in Excel or OpenOffice
spreadsheet and check that they are happy opening it as CSV. You'll
probably need to play with the settings when you do, e.g. change the
separator to tab instead of comma, etc. If you can open the file in
Excel and get sensible results, you should be able to do the same thing
with Python and the csv module.
You can learn more about the csv module here:
http://effbot.org/librarybook/csv.htm
http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/csv/
After taking a quick glance at the file you provided, it looks to me
like fixed width fields (padded with spaces) in a tab-separated format.
So you might have to do some post-processing to get rid of the spaces.
That's pretty easy: any time you extract a value, just call
value.strip() to remove the spaces before doing anything else with it.
--
Steven
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