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I'm an idiot

David LeBlanc whisper at oz.net
Fri Jun 28 22:30:12 EDT 2002 
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> Subject: I'm an idiot
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>
> OK, I am the first to admit it.  I am an idiot.  I have RTFM on this over
> and over, and I can still not figure out what I am doing wrong.
>
> I think the intent of the code is obvious, but just to clarify, I want to
> read every line in a file and write those lines back out to another file,
> but with leading and training space removed.  I also want to have some
> elegant way to determine that I have reached the end of the file and
> break out of the loop.
>
> And just to explain my stupidity, my reference langauge is BASIC.  I
> could have written this in BASIC in a minute, but I need to learn
> something new.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> David
>
>
> f=open('c:\\temp\\temp.txt', 'r')
> g=open('c:\\temp\\temp1.txt', 'w')
> while 1:
>     try:
>         s=f.readline
>         g.write(s.split())
>     except IOError:
>         break
>
> g.close
> f.close

Here's my version that also strips out blank lines:

#lineio.py
f=open('j:/python22/lineio.py', 'r')
g=open('j:/python22/lineio.txt', 'w')

for s in f:
        if s == '\n':
            continue
        g.write(s.strip() + '\n')

g.close()
f.close()

If you want to keep blank lines:

#lineio.py
f=open('j:/python22/lineio.py', 'r')
g=open('j:/python22/lineio.txt', 'w')

for s in f: g.write(s.strip() + '\n')

g.close()
f.close()

Dave LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA
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