newbe question about removing items from one file to another file

[Eric_Dexter at msn.com]

Anthra Norell wrote:
> Dexter,
>
> I looked at the format specification. It contains an example:
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> <CsoundSynthesizer>;
>   ; test.csd - a Csound structured data file
>
> <CsOptions>
>   -W -d -o tone.wav
> </CsOptions>
>
> <CsVersion>    ;optional section
>   Before 4.10  ;these two statements check for
>   After 4.08   ;   Csound version 4.09
> </CsVersion>
>
> <CsInstruments>
>   ; originally tone.orc
>   sr = 44100
>   kr = 4410
>   ksmps = 10
>   nchnls = 1
>   instr   1
>       a1 oscil p4, p5, 1 ; simple oscillator
>          out a1
>     endin
> </CsInstruments>
>
> <CsScore>
>   ; originally tone.sco
>   f1 0 8192 10 1
>   i1 0 1 20000 1000 ;play one second of one kHz tone
>   e
> </CsScore>
>
> </CsoundSynthesizer>
>
> -------------------------------------
>
> If I understand correctly you want to write the instruments block to a file (from <CsInstruments> to </CsInstruments>)? Right? Or
> each block to its own file in case there are several?. You want your code to generate the file names? Can you confirm this or
> explain it differently?
>
> Regards
>
> Frederic
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Eric_Dexter at msn.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> To: <python-list at python.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: newbe question about removing items from one file to another file
>
>
> >
> > Anthra Norell wrote:
> > > Eric,
> > >    Having played around with problems of this kind for quite some time I find them challenging even if I don't really have time
> to
> > > get sidetracked. Your description of the problem makes it all the more challenging, because its 'expressionist' quality adds the
> > > challenge of guessing what you mean.
> > >    I'd like to take a look at your data, if you would post a segment on which to operate, the same data the way it should look
> in
> > > the end. In most cases this is pretty self-explanatory. Explain the points that might not be obvious to a reader who knows
> nothing
> > > about your mission.
> > >
> > > Frederic
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <Eric_Dexter at msn.com>
> > > Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> > > To: <python-list at python.org>
> > > Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 11:35 PM
> > > Subject: newbe question about removing items from one file to another file
> > >
> > >
> > > > def simplecsdtoorc(filename):
> > > >     file = open(filename,"r")
> > > >     alllines = file.read_until("</CsInstruments>")
> > > >     pattern1 = re.compile("</")
> > > >     orcfilename = filename[-3:] + "orc"
> > > >     for line in alllines:
> > > >         if not pattern1
> > > >              print >>orcfilename, line
> > > >
> > > > I am pretty sure my code isn't close to what I want.  I need to be able
> > > > to skip html like commands from <defined> to <undefined> and to key on
> > > > another word in adition to </CsInstruments> to end the routine
> > > >
> > > > I was also looking at se 2.2 beta but didn't see any easy way to use it
> > > > for this or for that matter search and replace where I could just add
> > > > it as a menu item and not worry about it.
> > > >
> > > > thanks for any help in advance
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> >
> > sorry about that this is a link to a discription of the format
> > http://kevindumpscore.com/docs/csound-manual/commandunifile.html
> > It is possible to have more than one instr defined in an .csd file so I
> > would need to look for that string also if I want to seperate the
> > instruments out.
> >
> > http://www.dexrow.com
> >
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sorry I responded to the wrong post...  I was having trouble figuring
out the buitiful soup download