John Corry wrote:
> Your advice was spot on. I have enclosed the code that I ended up with.
> Instead of appending it to a list, I just wrote it to another file in the
> corrected format.
A few notes below:
>
>
> filename = "a:/calllist.csv"
> filename2 = "c:/calllist.csv"
> import string
> import os
> import re
> listy = []
You don't use string, os or listy so these lines can be removed
> input = open( filename, 'r') #read access
> input2 = open(filename2, 'w')
> for line in input.readlines():
> line = re.sub('[\s]+', '', line)
> y = line
> x = "\n"
> z = y + x
> input2.write(z)
I would write either
line += "\n"
input2.write(line)
or
input2.write(line)
input2.write("\n")
BTW input2 is not such a good name for an output file!
>
> del input
> del input2
del is not needed here, you should use
input.close() # not really needed
input2.close()
I say "not really needed" because for an input file you probably don't
care exactly when it is closed. For an output file I always close it as
soon as I am done writing. But maybe I am just teaching my own bad
habits here!
Kent
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