Formatting input text file

[Edwin.Madari at VerizonWireless.com]

save following code in script.py, and run it as 'python script.py <your-data-file>'
with your sample data this prints out following which is what you are looking for (i think)
3.08333 9.05526 3.13581
4.08322 4.02526 3.95891
========================================================
import sys

data = []
row = []
fh = open(sys.argv[1])
for line in fh:
   line = line.strip()
   if not line or line.startswith('....'):
      continue
   if line.startswith('X'):
      if row:
         data.append(row)
         row = []
      continue
   row.append(line.split()[1])
if row:
   data.append(row)

for  i in data:
   print ' '.join(i)
=====================================

good luck.
Edwin
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On Behalf Of victor.herasme at gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:07 AM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Formatting input text file


Hi,

it's me again with tons of questions. I hava an input file structured
like this:

                  X               XYData-1

                1.                 3.08333
                2.                 9.05526
                3.                 3.13581
                .......

                  X               XYData-2

                1.                 4.08322
                2.                 4.02526
                3.                 3.95891
                ...............

i want to format it so i only get the second column, in order to place
it in a mxn matrix. Let's say i want this:

number1   number2   number3
number4   number5   number6

i hope it is not too hard to do. Any help greatly apreciated. Thanks,

Victor
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