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>
>
> As for splitting into functions, consider:
>
> #these two are capitalized because they're intended to be constant
> TOKENS = "BE"
> LINESTOSKIP = 43
> INFILEEXT = ".xpm"
> OUTFILEEXT = ".txt"
>
> def dofiles(topdirectory):
> for filename in os.listdr(topdirectory):
> processfile(filename)
>
> def processfile(infilename):
> base, ext =os.path.splitext(fileName)
> if ext == INFILEEXT:
> text = fetchonefiledata(infilename)
> numcolumns = len(text[0])
> results = {}
> for ch in TOKENS:
>
> results[ch] = [0] * numcolumns
> for line in text:
> line = line.strip()
>
> for col, ch in enumerate(line):
> if ch in tokens:
> results[ch][col] += 1
>
I still have trouble understanding the results[ch][col] part.
Thanks ahead,
> writeonefiledata(base+**OUTFILEEXT, results)
>
> def fetchonefiledata(inname):
> infile = open(inname)
> text = infile.readlines()
> return text[LINESTOSKIP:]
>
> def writeonefiledata(outname):
> outfile = open(outname, "w")
> ...process the results as appropriate...
> ....(since you didn't tell us how multiple tokens were to be displayed)
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
> dofiles(".") #or get the top directory from the sys.argv variable,
> which is set from command line.
>
>
>
> --
>
> DaveA
>
>
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Best Regards,
lina
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