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Extracting Text - Evil_Patrick - Nov-13-2019
So I have a text file. containing around 400 lines of my Instagram following info like Email:username:posts
I want to extract all the usernames into another text file
Can anyone help me?
RE: Extracting Text - Larz60+ - Nov-13-2019
how do you think you might go about this?
do you have sample data that you can share?
RE: Extracting Text - perfringo - Nov-13-2019
Like:
>>> s = 'Email:username:posts'
>>> s.split(':')[1]
'username'
RE: Extracting Text - Evil_Patrick - Nov-13-2019
(Nov-13-2019, 05:44 AM)Larz60+ Wrote: how do you think you might go about this?
do you have sample data that you can share?
I have some Idea, but my code is too messy
That's why I'm not asking for correction in code
RE: Extracting Text - buran - Nov-13-2019
(Nov-13-2019, 07:00 AM)Evil_Patrick Wrote: I have some Idea, but my code is too messy
That's why I'm not asking for correction in code
how messy could be 3 lines of code? And it could be 2 lines if you are minimalist
RE: Extracting Text - Evil_Patrick - Nov-13-2019
(Nov-13-2019, 07:49 AM)buran Wrote:(Nov-13-2019, 07:00 AM)Evil_Patrick Wrote: I have some Idea, but my code is too messy
That's why I'm not asking for correction in code
how messy could be 3 lines of code? And it could be 2 lines if you are minimalist
This was my code
delimiterInFile = [':']
with open(r'C:\Users\Evil Patrick\Desktop\Insta.txt', 'r') as file:
listLine = file.readlines()
for itemLine in listLine:
item =str(itemLine)
for delimeter in delimiterInFile:
item = item.replace(str(delimeter),' ')
print(item)I don't know WTF I was tryiny to do
RE: Extracting Text - buran - Nov-13-2019
Here is your code with some comments from me to help. I don't want to give you the solution, as it will be more beneficial to you
delimiterInFile = [':'] # why list? you know it's a semi-colon, no other delimiters
with open(r'C:\Users\Evil Patrick\Desktop\Insta.txt', 'r') as file:
listLine = file.readlines() # you can iterate directly over file, no need to read full file in memory, but this is also ok
for itemLine in listLine:
item =str(itemLine) # unnecessary, and itemLine is str anyway
for delimeter in delimiterInFile: # not necessary
item = item.replace(str(delimeter),' ') # you don't want to replace, you want to split itemLine at delimiter and take the first relement from resulting list
print(item)