Python to edit text files

[NaughtyNathan]

reading a text file is extremely simple and straightforward at the basic level, but in your file you have several other floats (8.0, 29.97, etc..) so the hardest thing to do is to decide how your function will find and extract the correct floats when reading the file.

Looking at your example I'd say any line that contains 2 tokens, the first of which is an int and the second of which is a float should work, but I have no idea what permutations your text files may come in. only you will know that for sure. You could alternatively wait for the line with just "Frame" in it and then start reading floats.... the choice is down to you.

:nathaN

[NaughtyNathan]

here's a very basic example Wolfy:

textFile = 'c:/data.txt'
file = open(textFile,'r')
for line in file.readlines():
tokens = line.split()
if len(tokens) == 2:
print tokens[1]
file.close()
it obviously needs more error-checking for the floats and such, but it's an example of how easy it is to parse a text file.
:nathaN

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