readline() & seek() ???

[Chris]

On Jun 6, 5:13 am, Kam-Hung Soh <kamhung.... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim Roberts wrote:
> > DataSmash <r... at new.rr.com> wrote:
> >> I have a text file that contains thousands of lines and each line is
> >> 256 characters long.
>
> >> This is my task:
> >> For each line in the file, move to the 25th character, if the
> >> character is a "T",
> >> move to the 35th character of the line and read 5 characters from
> >> there.
> >> Capture these 5 characters and write them to a new text file, each 5
> >> characters separated by a comma.
>
> >> I appreciate your help!
>
> > Did you even TRY this?  Your task reads like pseudocode that translates
> > virtually line-for-line to Python code.
>
> >   fout = open('outputfile.txt','w')
> >   for line in open('inputfile.txt'):
> >       if line[24] == 'T':
> >           fout.write( line[34:39] + ',' )
>
> Should the last line be ...
>
> fout.write(','.join(line[34:39])
>
> --
> Kam-Hung Soh <a href="http://kamhungsoh.com/blog">Software Salariman</a>

each 5 characters need to be delimited by a comma, your statement
would have a comma between each of the 5 characters.