[Tutor] map one file and print it out following the sequence

[Andreas Perstinger]

On 2011-10-12 10:27, lina wrote:
>   $ python3 map-to-itp.py
> {'O4': '2', 'C19': '3', 'C21': '1'}
> {'C': '3'}
> {'C': '2'}
> {'C': '1'}
>
> for print(mapping) part, {'O4': '2', 'C19': '3', 'C21': '1'} the value
> doesn't keep the 1, 2, 3 order any more.

That's fine, because "mapping" is a dictionary which has no order. From 
the tutorial 
(http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries):
"It is best to think of a dictionary as an unordered set of key: value 
pairs, with the requirement that the keys are unique (within one 
dictionary)."

What you want (as far as I understand it) is sorting the lines in 
"pdbone.pdb" based on the positions in file "itpone.itp". The connection 
between both files is the column with the values "O4", "C19", "C21", ... 
(= your keys). You've already succesfully built a dictionary in which 
you saved the position for every key.

For the sorting you could now build a list of tuples of all lines in 
"pdbone.pdb" you want to sort where the first element in the tuple is 
the position and the second the line itself. Then you can easily sort 
this temporary list and write the new ordered lines back to the file:

def sortoneblock(cID):
     text = fetchonefiledata(INFILENAME)
     temp = []    # create an empty temporary list

     for line in text:
         blocks = line.strip().split()
         if len(blocks) == 11 and blocks[3] == "CUR" and blocks[4] == 
cID and blocks[2] in mapping.keys():

             temp.append((mapping[blocks[2]], line))  # add a tuple to 
the list which has the following format: (position from the dictionary, 
complete line)

     # the following line just shows you, what we have done so far. You 
can delete it without consequences.

     for line in temp: print(line)

     temp.sort() # this sorts the list based on the position

     # the following line prints the sorted list (just the original line 
without the position elements). If you want to write the result back to 
the file you have to exchange "print()"

     for line in temp: print(line[1])

Bye, Andreas