On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:11 PM, taserian <taser...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:58 AM, susana moreno colomer > <susana...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> I have a folder, with the following text files with columns: >> >> bb_ 1 >> bb_2 >> ww_1 >> ww_2 >> ff_1 >> ff_2 >> >> What I want to do is: >> >> Extract columns 5,6, 8 from files bb_ >> Extract columns 3,4 from files ww_ >> Get 5 files, corresponding to different columns: >> Files (excel files): 'ro' with colums number 5, 'bf' with colums number >> 6, 'sm' with column 8, 'se' with columns number 3 and 'dse' with columns >> number 4 > > How are these columns separated? Blank spaces, tabs, commas? > > I'm mostly worried about: > > > for b in line: > A.append(b[5].strip()) > B.append(b[6].strip()) > C.append(b[8].strip()) > > For the A List, this will take the 5th character from the line, not the 5th > column. You may need to split the line based on the separators. > > AR > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > To make your code show correctly you must set your email program to write text and not html. You should also set your text editor to turn tabs into 4 spaces. Tabs work in python, but you can't mix tabs and spaces, so it is less of a problem if you only use spaces for indenting
-- Joel Goldstick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
