Code Explanation

[Michael Bentley]

On May 17, 2007, at 4:12 AM, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
> I’m currently working on a non-python project, and I’m trying to  
> overcome a task of parsing a text file into a database and/or xml  
> file. I’ve managed to find a parser example written in python, and  
> I’m hoping to deconstruct the code methodology a bit so I can write  
> it in another language. So I’m hoping someone can explain to me  
> what these following bits of code are doing.
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> lines = range(data.count("\n"))
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> lined_data = data.split("\n")
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> print "Read %i vendors, now processing" % data.count("(hex)")
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> I’ve not used the split() function before, but it partly makes  
> sense to me. What is that piece of code doing? ‘Data’ is the  
> content of the text file, presumably the first line there is  
> counting the number of lines in the file, but I don’t get the rest  
> of it.
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> The rest of the code seems like a relatively simple set of loops,  
> but it’s just this splitting stuff that’s got me confused.
http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html


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