split and regexp on textfile

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:08:05 -0300, Flyzone <flyzone at technologist.com>  
escribió:

> A little question: the pat.split can split without delete the date?

No, but instead of reading the whole file and splitting on dates, you  
could iterate over the file and detect block endings:

def split_on_dates(ftoparse):
   block = None
   for line in ftoparse:
     if fancy_date_regexp.match(line):
       # a new block begins, yield the previous one
       if block is not None:
         yield current_date, block
       current_date = line
       block = []
     else:
       # accumulate lines for current block
       block.append(line)
   # don't forget the last block
   if block is not None:
     yield current_date, block

for date, block in split_on_dates(ftoparse):
   # process block

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Gabriel Genellina