On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:12:53 +0100, Peter Fodrek <peter.fod...@stuba.sk>
wrote:
21.7.2009 v 17:39, Rhodri James:
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:30:47 +0100, Peter Fodrek <peter.fod...@stuba.sk
> wrote:
[snipped for space]
This handles text file like
// remark
PL_OFF
PARK
FS
MA 52.8806 , 18.0914
SS
AD_W
PL_ON
C 52.3955 , -16.1511 , -90.0000
It handles file correctly with two exceptions
1) omits ',' in the a output
You don't do any output, so it's hard to correct that!
for line
C 52.3955 , -16.1511 , -90.0000
it returns (as I remember)
('C', ' ', '52.3955', ' ', ' ', ' 16.1511', ' ', ' ','90.0')
I was to get (number and positions of empty strings are not related to
me. I can add, remove then as you wish)
('C', ' ', '52.3955', ' ', ' ,', ' -16.1511', ' ', ' ,','-90.0')
If whitespace isn't an issue and the format really is as simple as
your example, you don't need the full power of a regular expression
here. split() would do the trick:
words = self.line.split()
will return what you want for that example. It will produce different
(but more consistent) results than the regular expression for other lines,
though: for example,
MA 52.8806 , 18.0914
when put through the regular expression (if fixed for commas) would give
you
('M', 'A', ' ', '52.8806', ' ', ',', ' ', '18.0914')
as against
['MA', '52.8806', ',', '18.0914']
I use eval call in python to do format conversion, so just parsing is
problem
float() might be better than eval(), if you know for sure that you are
expecting floats.
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