On 30/09/2013 21:29, Leena Gupta wrote:
Hello,I have a TSV file that has the city,state,country information in this format: Name Display name Code San Jose SJC SJC - SJ (POP), CA (US) San Francisco SFO SFO - SF, CA (US) I need to extract the state and country for each city from this file. I'm trying to do this in python by using the following Regex: s=re.search(',(.*?)\(',text) if s: state=s.group(1).strip() c=re.search('\((.*?)\)',text) if c: country=c.group(1).strip() This works well for the state. But for country for San Jose, it brings the following: country = POP I think it maybe better to search from the end of the string,but I am unable to get the right syntax. Could you please share any pointers? Thanks!
I'd be strongly inclined to use the CSV module from the standard library with an excel-tab dialect name, see http://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html#module-csv
Please try it and if you encounter any problems feel free to get back to us, we don't bite :)
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