I´m a total newbie
infile:
Baby 1902
Buby 1952
Boby 1950
Daisy 1990
Dassy 1940
Dasay 1960
Rob 1960
Bob 1990
Bolob 1970
Asdf 1999
Code:
#!/usr/bin/python
inData = open('crap3.txt')
Lina = inData.readline()
Lina = Lina.strip()
tmpFields = Lina.split('\t')
for line in inData:
bla = tmpFields[1]
print(bla)
It prints out the first birthyear ten times. I would like it to print out every year.
Try this:
with open('crap3.txt') as inData:
for line in inData:
line = line.strip()
name, year = line.split('\t', 1)
print(year)
It's good custom to use with when opening files. The file is then automatically closed at the end of the block.
Move the split inside the loop, so that it's done for every line. The following suffices as your complete program:
inData = open("crap3.txt")
for line in inData:
print(line.split()[1])
You aren't doing anything with the line variable in the loop. Try this:
lines = open('crap3.txt').readlines()
for line in lines:
bits = line.split('\t')
print bits[0]
readline read only one line. This way you iterate over the same line again and again.
use inData.readlines() or put the readline into your loop ;)
