[Tutor] get columns from txt file

[Don Jennings]

On Jul 11, 2012, at 10:21 AM, tutor-request at python.org wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I have a group of files in a directory.
> I want to extract from  files whose names start with  bb_   column number 5 to an excel file. I have 6  bb_  files, therefore I want to get 6 columns (5th column from each file)
> This code is working,with the following errors:
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> I get the data in only one column, instead of six
> I get white cell after every extracted cell
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> I've got  help from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2004-November/033474.html, though it is not working for me


If I understand your requirements correctly, you should read the followup message in that thread:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2004-November/033475.html

Primarily, you'll just have to alter one of the code samples to write it to csv.

Take care,
Don

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