Michael Haft wrote:
> Hello,
> I tried the following code:
>
> def readSOMNETM(inputName):
> input = open(inputName, "r")
> result = []
> for line in input:
> fields = line.split()
> data = fields[1] + fields[2] + fields[7]
> result.append(data)
> input.close()
> return result
As bob has hinted, you need to skip the headers. If there are always five lines
of header they are easy to skip, just do
input = open(inputName, "r")
for i in range(5): input.next()
result = []
for line in input:
Kent
>
>
> print "Here goes"
> print "Enter filename:"
> filename = raw_input("Name:")
> print readSOMNETM(filename)
> print "might work"
>
> on a file that lookes like this:
>
> Monthly Weather Data, LAU73M.MET, converted from:
> BAD LAUCHSTAEDT; DAILY METEOROLOGICAL DATA FOR 01/01/1973-31/12/1973
> VAP, DEWP CALCULATED FROM MEASURED AVTEMP AND HUMID DATA
> MONTH RAIN AVTEMP S10 RAD SUN WIND EVAPW
> **************************************************************
> 1 22.5 0.3 * 54.6 15.1 * 11.9
> 2 16.1 1.8 * 110 51.1 * 18.1
> 3 16.4 4.8 * 227.5 94.5 * 36.8
> 4 19.5 5.9 * 286.3 89 * 45.5
> 5 36.1 13.2 * 448.5 164.6 * 83
> 6 36 16.9 * 525.7 208.8 * 105.7
> 7 37.7 18.2 * 459.7 165.4 * 98.6
> 8 29.3 18.2 * 463.8 206.8 * 97.9
> 9 27 14.8 * 277.5 119.5 * 58.7
> 10 57.6 7.6 * 158.7 72.2 * 31.3
> 11 23.4 3.9 * 98.3 75.6 * 19.1
> 12 14 0.7 * 55.5 38 * 12.5
>
>
> And recieved the following error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Python24\INProgress.py", line 15, in -toplevel-
> print readSOMNETM(filename)
> File "C:\Python24\INProgress.py", line 6, in readSOMNETM
> data = fields[1] + fields[2] + fields[7]
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
> Essentially I'm trying to write a bit of code that can take any of the
> fields in the above data i.e. rain temp evap for each month for a hundred
> or so files like this one and spit out a file at the end that has the data
> in a different format.
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated I need to get this done by the end
> of next week
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
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