pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
Is there an efficient way to multi-slice a fixed with string into
individual fields that's logically equivalent to the way one would slice
a delimited string using .split()?
Background: I'm parsing some very large, fixed line-width text files
that have weekly columns of data (52 data columns plus related data). My
current strategy is to loop through a list of slice()'s to build a list
of the specific field values for each line. This is fine for small
files, but seems inefficient. I'm hoping that there's a built-in (C
based) or 3rd party module that is specifically designed for doing
multiple field extractions at once.
You could try the struct module:
>>> import struct
>>> struct.unpack("3s4s1s", b"123abcdX")
('123', 'abcd', 'X')
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