[Tutor] Using contents of a document to change file names, (was Re: how to extract data only after a certain ...)

[Alan Gauld]

"Josep M. Fontana" <josep.m.fontana at gmail.com> wrote

> I tried your suggestion of using .split() to get around the problem 
> but I
> still cannot move forward.


> fileNameCentury = open(r
> '/Volumes/DATA/Documents/workspace/GCA/CORPUS_TEXT_LATIN_1/FileNamesYears.txt'
> .split('\r'))

You are trying to split the filename not the contents of the file!

> Interestingly I get closer to the solution but with a little twist:
>
> ['A-01,1374\n', 'A-02,1499\n', 'A-05,1449\n', 'A-06,1374\n', 
> 'A-09,1449\n',
> 'B-01,1299\n', 'B-02,1299\n', 'B-06,1349\n'...]
>
> That is, now I do get a list but as you can see I get the newline 
> character
> as part of each one of the strings in the list. This is pretty 
> weird. Is
> this a general problem with Macs?

No, this is what you would expect. Reading from a file will give you 
the \n
character, you can use strip() (or rstrip()) to remove it.

HTH,


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Alan Gauld
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