* Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070415 20:30]: > Washakie wrote: > > Thanks so much! Now another task, associated with this one... what I > > actually ultimately want is to just pull out several fields from the > > text file in the zip archive (there is actually only one file).. so, my > > goal is the to create a file that looks like: > > > > t[0], x[0], y[0] > > t[1], x[1], y[1] > > t[2], x[2], y[2] > > t[3], x[3], y[3] > > ... > > t[:], x[:], y[:] > > > > Note, these would actually be strings representing the values... and I'm > > not trying to do the header yet... :s > > You could just write them out as you process them. The same loop that > reads the input lines can write the output lines.
Consider using the csv module. out = file("output", "w") cout = csv.writer(out) cout.writerow((1,2,3,"abc", "def")) > > > > I've tried OUT = [t,x,y ] > > but when I write it out, it seems to go through all of t first, then x, > > then y... > > i'm having a really hard time switching my thinking away from matlab > > array processing which I think is part of my problem!! out = file("output", "w") cout = csv.writer(out) cout.writerows(zip(t, x, y)) out.close() Andreas _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor