readline() & seek() ???

[Kam-Hung Soh]

Chris wrote:
> 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.

You're right; I see where I got confused.

-- 
Kam-Hung Soh <a href="http://kamhungsoh.com/blog">Software Salariman</a>