Question about nested loop

[Isaac Won]

On Monday, December 31, 2012 6:59:34 AM UTC-6, Hans Mulder wrote:
> On 31/12/12 11:02:56, Isaac Won wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> 
> > I am a very novice for Python. Currently, I am trying to read continuous
> 
> > columns repeatedly in the form of array. 
> 
> > my code is like below:
> 
> > 
> 
> > import numpy as np
> 
> > 
> 
> > b = [] 
> 
> > c = 4
> 
> > f = open("text.file", "r")
> 
> > 
> 
> > while c < 10:
> 
> >         c = c + 1
> 
> > 
> 
> >         for  columns in ( raw.strip().split() for raw in f ):
> 
> >                 b.append(columns[c])
> 
> > 
> 
> >         y = np.array(b, float)
> 
> >         print c, y
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > I thought that  can get the arrays of the columns[5] to [10], but I only
> 
> > could get repetition of same arrays of columns[5].
> 
> > 
> 
> > The result was something like:
> 
> > 
> 
> > 5 [1 2 3 4 ......, 10 9 8]
> 
> > 6 [1 2 3 4 ......, 10 9 8]
> 
> > 7 [1 2 3 4 ......, 10 9 8]
> 
> > 8 [1 2 3 4 ......, 10 9 8]
> 
> > 9 [1 2 3 4 ......, 10 9 8]
> 
> > 10 [1 2 3 4 ......, 10 9 8]
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > What I can't understand is that even though c increased incrementally upto 10,
> 
> > y arrays stay same.
> 
> > 
> 
> > Would someone help me to understand this problem more?
> 
> 
> 
> That's because the inner loop read from a file until his reaches
> 
> the end of the file.  Since you're not resetting the file pointer,
> 
> during the second and later runs of the outer loop, the inner loop
> 
> starts at the end of the file and terminates without any action.
> 
> 
> 
> You'd get more interesting results if you rewind the file:
> 
> 
> 
> import numpy as np
> 
> 
> 
> b = []
> 
> c = 4
> 
> f = open("text.file", "r")
> 
> 
> 
> while c < 10:
> 
>         c = c + 1
> 
> 
> 
>         f.seek(0,0)
> 
>         for  columns in ( raw.strip().split() for raw in f ):
> 
>                 b.append(columns[c])
> 
> 
> 
>         y = np.array(b, float)
> 
>         print c, y
> 
> 
> 
> It's a bit inefficient to read the same file several times.
> 
> You might consider reading it just once.  For example:
> 
> 
> 
> import numpy as np
> 
> 
> 
> b = []
> 
> 
> 
> f = open("text.file", "r")
> 
> data = [ line.strip().split() for line in f ]
> 
> f.close()
> 
> 
> 
> for c in xrange(5, 11):
> 
>         for row in data:
> 
>                 b.append(row[c])
> 
> 
> 
>         y = np.array(b, float)
> 
>         print c, y
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> 
> 
> -- HansM

Hi Hans,

I appreciate your advice and kind tips.

The both codes which you gave seem pretty interesting.

Both look working for incrementing inner loop number, but the results of y are added repeatedly such as [1,2,3],[1,2,3,4,5,6], [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. Anyhow, really thank you for your help and I will look at this problem more in detail.

Isaac