Discussion on some Code Issues

[subhabangalore at gmail.com]

Dear Peter,
That is a nice one. I am thinking if I can write "for lines in f" sort of code that is easy but then how to find out the slices then, btw do you know in any case may I convert the index position of file to the list position provided I am writing the list for the same file we are reading. 

Best Regards,
Subhabrata. 

On Thursday, July 5, 2012 1:00:12 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Otten wrote:
> subhabangalore at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday, July 5, 2012 4:51:46 AM UTC+5:30, (unknown) wrote:
> >> Dear Group,
> >> 
> >> I am Sri Subhabrata Banerjee trying to write from Gurgaon, India to
> >> discuss some coding issues. If any one of this learned room can shower
> >> some light I would be helpful enough.
> >> 
> >> I got to code a bunch of documents  which are combined together.
> >> Like,
> >> 
> >> 1)A Mumbai-bound aircraft with 99 passengers on board was struck by
> >> lightning on Tuesday evening that led to complete communication failure
> >> in mid-air and forced the pilot to make an emergency landing. 2) The
> >> discovery of a new sub-atomic particle that is key to understanding how
> >> the universe is built has an intrinsic Indian connection. 3) A bomb
> >> explosion outside a shopping mall here on Tuesday left no one injured,
> >> but Nigerian authorities put security agencies on high alert fearing more
> >> such attacks in the city.
> >> 
> >> The task is to separate the documents on the fly and to parse each of the
> >> documents with a definite set of rules.
> >> 
> >> Now, the way I am processing is:
> >> I am clubbing all the documents together, as,
> >> 
> >> A Mumbai-bound aircraft with 99 passengers on board was struck by
> >> lightning on Tuesday evening that led to complete communication failure
> >> in mid-air and forced the pilot to make an emergency landing.The
> >> discovery of a new sub-atomic particle that is key to understanding how
> >> the universe is built has an intrinsic Indian connection. A bomb
> >> explosion outside a shopping mall here on Tuesday left no one injured,
> >> but Nigerian authorities put security agencies on high alert fearing more
> >> such attacks in the city.
> >> 
> >> But they are separated by a tag set, like,
> >> A Mumbai-bound aircraft with 99 passengers on board was struck by
> >> lightning on Tuesday evening that led to complete communication failure
> >> in mid-air and forced the pilot to make an emergency landing.$ The
> >> discovery of a new sub-atomic particle that is key to understanding how
> >> the universe is built has an intrinsic Indian connection.$ A bomb
> >> explosion outside a shopping mall here on Tuesday left no one injured,
> >> but Nigerian authorities put security agencies on high alert fearing more
> >> such attacks in the city.
> >> 
> >> To detect the document boundaries, I am splitting them into a bag of
> >> words and using a simple for loop as, for i in range(len(bag_words)):
> >>         if bag_words[i]=="$":
> >>             print (bag_words[i],i)
> >> 
> >> There is no issue. I am segmenting it nicely. I am using annotated corpus
> >> so applying parse rules.
> >> 
> >> The confusion comes next,
> >> 
> >> As per my problem statement the size of the file (of documents combined
> >> together) won’t increase on the fly. So, just to support all kinds of
> >> combinations I am appending in a list the “I” values, taking its length,
> >> and using slice. Works perfect. Question is, is there a smarter way to
> >> achieve this, and a curious question if the documents are on the fly with
> >> no preprocessed tag set like “$” how may I do it? From a bunch without
> >> EOF isn’t it a classification problem?
> >> 
> >> There is no question on parsing it seems I am achieving it independent of
> >> length of the document.
> >> 
> >> If any one in the group can suggest how I am dealing with the problem and
> >> which portions should be improved and how?
> >> 
> >> Thanking You in Advance,
> >> 
> >> Best Regards,
> >> Subhabrata Banerjee.
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Steven, It is nice to see your post. They are nice and I learnt so many
> > things from you. "I" is for index of the loop. Now my clarification I
> > thought to do "import os" and process files in a loop but that is not my
> > problem statement. I have to make a big lump of text and detect one chunk.
> > Looping over the line number of file I am not using because I may not be
> > able to take the slices-this I need. I thought to give re.findall a try
> > but that is not giving me the slices. Slice spreads here. The power issue
> > of string! I would definitely give it a try. Happy Day Ahead Regards,
> > Subhabrata Banerjee.
> 
> Then use re.finditer():
> 
> start = 0
> for match in re.finditer(r"\$", data):
>     end = match.start()
>     print(start, end)
>     print(data[start:end])
>     start = match.end()
> 
> This will omit the last text. The simplest fix is to put another "$" 
> separator at the end of your data.