Hi Kent,
Thank you for your suggestion. I keep getting
IOError permission denied every time I try the tips
that you provided. I tried to lookup on this error and
did not get reasonable answer. Is this error something
to do with Windows OS?
Any suggestions.
Thank you
K
>>> allColumns = [readColumns("C:\Documents and
Settings\myfiles")for filePath in file_list]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#167>", line 1, in -toplevel-
allColumns = [readColumns("C:\Documents and
Settings\myfiles")for filePath in file_list]
File "<pyshell#159>", line 2, in readColumns
rows = [line.split() for line in open(filePath)]
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Documents
and Settings\\myfiles'
>>>
> def readColumns(filePath):
> rows = [ line.split() for line in
> open(filePath) ]
> return zip(*rows)
>
> # list of all the files to read
> allFiles = [ 'f1.txt', 'f2.txt' ]
>
> # both columns from all files
> allColumns = [ readColumns(filePath) for filePath in
> allFiles ]
>
> # just the second column from all files
> allSecondColumns = [ cols[1] for cols in allColumns
> ]
>
> # a representative first column
> col1 = allColumns[0][0]
>
> # zip it up into rows
> allRows = zip(col1, *allSecondColumns)
>
> for row in allRows:
> print '\t'.join(row)
>
>
> Kent
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