Quck question

[engsolnom at ipns.com]

On 5 Jan 2004 16:10:21 -0800, sinzcere at hotmail.com (J) wrote:

>I have the following information in a file :
>r1kcch    Serial0/0/0    propPointToPointSerial
>Mon Jan 5 13:15:03 PST 2004 InOctets.1    0
>Mon Jan 5 13:15:05 PST 2004 OutOctets.1   0
>
>I want to be able to extract each line into a comma delimited list. 
>Bellow i am trying to print out my list print currentList but nothing
>is comming out.  I added a line after print test to make sure the file
>has the information.  Can someone help me with this?
>
>
>#Read a file
>true = 1
>in_file = open("test.txt","r")
>text = in_file.read()
>while true:
>    in_line = in_file.readline()
>    if in_line == "":
>        break
>    currentList = string.split(in_line,",")
>    #print out the contents of the current list
>    print currentList 
>    #make the inline stop reading
>    in_line = in_line[:-1]
>in_file.close()


Here's an alternate way....

fd_in = open('myfiles/test_text.txt', 'r')
each_line = ''
a_list = []

for line in fd_in.readlines():
    for word in line.split():
        each_line += word + ','
        a_list.append(word)        # If a real list is desired
    print each_line                    # Keep the trailing comma
    print each_line.rstrip(',')       # Delete the trailing comma
    each_line = ''                      # Ready for the next line

    #a_list = []                          # Clear the list if one line per
                                              # list is desired

print a_list                              # Otherwise the whole file is
                                              # contained in the list

fd_in.close()


Prints:

This,is,line,one,
This,is,line,one
This,is,line,two,
This,is,line,two
This,is,line,three,
This,is,line,three
This,is,line,four,
This,is,line,four
This,is,line,five,
This,is,line,five
This,is,line,six,
This,is,line,six

['This', 'is', 'line', 'one', 'This', 'is', 'line', 'two', 'This', 'is',...]

Several concepts are embedded, if that's a confusion, I apologize.
Of course, you can write to an output file in lieu of the prints.

Norm
 (just a newbie)