The function expects an excel file. It cannot read a plain text
file. You would need to figure out a way to convert the text file
data into an excel format and save it to a new file first.
The proper way to handle this is to make your data processing
functions expect a defined format. Then, you
This is smells of homework. Here are few alternative solutions of mine
that I don't like. I presume a good teacher will refuse them all,
because no one of them uses the right tool :-) And every one of them
has some small problem (even if they work here).
data = """\
TABLE
black
blue
red
CHAIR
yell
En Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:52:08 -0200, Gabriel Genellina
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> I have a text file with marked up data that I need to convert into a
> text tab separated file.
Sorry, I sent the code too early:
rows = []
row = None
for line in file1:
line = line.strip() # remove lead
En Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:54:49 -0200, Tess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> I have a text file with marked up data that I need to convert into a
> text tab separated file.
>
> The structure of the input file is listed below (see file 1) and the
> desired output file is below as well (see file 2).
>
>
