I have given it all I got: a week trying to open, read,
write, split, append, convert to integers and then manipulate
the data. I have attached the file I want to pull the names
and numbers from. I'll cut and paste it incase that doesn't
work and then include a sample of the python shell code.
AK 36
AL 39
AR 39
AZ 45
CA 61
CO 54
CT 61
DC 93
DE 62
FL 51
GA 47
HI 72
IA 54
ID 36
IL 62
IN 50
KS 41
KY 41
LA 40
MA 62
MD 62
ME 58
MI 57
MN 54
MO 49
MS 43
MT 47
NC 50
ND 45
NE 41
NH 54
NJ 57
NM 57
NV 55
NY 62
OH 51
OK 34
OR 57
PA 55
RI 63
SC 45
SD 45
TN 42
TX 44
UT 34
VA 53
VT 67
WA 58
WI 56
WV 43
WY 33
# and now my newbie attempt:
# I can get this far in approach #1
>>> filename =
"z:/Geog482/egund919/Program1/BOJ.txt"
>>> myfile = open(filename,"r")
>>> newfile =
"z:/Geog482/egund919/Program1/BOJ_B.txt"
>>> mynewfile = open(newfile,"w")
>>> while True:
line = myfile.readline()
print line
mynewfile.write(line)
if not line: break
States OJ
AK 36
AL 39
AR 39
AZ 45
CA 61
CO 54
CT 61
DC 93
DE 62
FL 51
GA 47
HI 72
IA 54
ID 36
IL 62
IN 50
KS 41
KY 41
LA 40
MA 62
MD 62
ME 58
MI 57
MN 54
MO 49
MS 43
MT 47
NC 50
ND 45
NE 41
NH 54
NJ 57
NM 57
NV 55
NY 62
OH 51
OK 34
OR 57
PA 55
RI 63
SC 45
SD 45
TN 42
TX 44
UT 34
VA 53
VT 67
WA 58
WI 56
WV 43
WY 33
In approach number 2: trying to append, convert
to integer, but the list comes up empty:
>>> infile =
open('C:/Python27/egund919/Program1/BOJ_B.txt','r')
>>> import string
>>> state_name = []
>>> data_value = []
>>> counter = 0
>>> x = 0
>>> line = infile.readline()
>>> while True:
line = infile.readline()
if not line: break
counter = counter + 1
States, OJ = string.split(line)
XSTATES = str(States)
XNUM = int(OJ)
state_name.append(XSTATES)
data_value.append(XNUM)
>>> type(data_value)
<type 'list'>
>>> print(data_value)
[]
>>> print (line)
All I get is errors from here on out.....
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