Python

Heybaby · 10-27-2003, 01:53 PM

Hey.
I am just starting out with Python. I know my question is trivial, and its almost def. in the manual, I just can't seem to find it.
Couls someone pretty pretty please tell me the code to read a file and copy certain data entries from the file into a numerical array. what could do i use to find a certain word/string in the text file?

jailbait · 10-28-2003, 04:04 PM

Sorry, I gave an incorrect answer.

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Steve Stites

contrasutra · 10-28-2003, 04:22 PM

For processing strings, look at the "re" (regular expressions) module,

to open a file:

x = open('/file/path', 'r')

to read a file and create a list of its Lines:

x = x.readlines()

to copy that text into a new file:

y = open('/path/to/newfile', 'w')

y.writelines(x)

y.flush()
y.close()
x.close()