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How to save results from script to a txt file

Jul 6th, 2009

Here is my code atm

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room_num = raw_input("Enter your room number: ")
text_file = open("c:/roombookings.txt", "r")
whole_thing = text_file.readline()
 
if room_num in whole_thing:
    print "Room number found here is the information:"
else :
    print "Room number not found."
 
single_line = whole_thing.split('\n')
for single_line in text_file.readlines():
   if room_num in single_line:
      print single_line
 
fileObj = open("courseinfo.dat","w")
fileObj.write(???????????????????????????)
fileObj.close()
 
 
text_file.close()
room_num = raw_input("Enter your room number: ")
text_file = open("c:/roombookings.txt", "r")
whole_thing = text_file.readline()

if room_num in whole_thing:
    print "Room number found here is the information:"
else :
    print "Room number not found."

single_line = whole_thing.split('\n')
for single_line in text_file.readlines():
   if room_num in single_line:
      print single_line
      
fileObj = open("courseinfo.dat","w")
fileObj.write(???????????????????????????)
fileObj.close()


text_file.close()

The user types in a roomnumber and the script displays the information regarding the roomnumber only. What i need to do is have the script save the same data to a seperate file. I can get the script to create the file but not the results from the search.

I am 85% sure that where i have the ????????? is where the answer lies... however i am not smart enough to know exactly what i am doing wrong

What should i be doing that i have forgotten?

Last edited by jabbadabba; Jul 6th, 2009 at 2:24 am.

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Re: How to save results from script to a txt file

Jul 6th, 2009

First, your whole_thing variable should be text_file.read() if you want to return all the contents as a string. Or text_file.readlines() if you want to return all the contents as a list of each line. Change this and see if that fixes any problems with your code.

I don't fully understand what you mean by "search results", but I assume you mean the single_line variable if the room number is in that line. If you want to write that line to the "courseinfo.dat" file, the just stick that writing segment inside where you are currently printing the single_line. Like this:

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single_line = whole_thing.split('\n')
for single_line in text_file.readlines():
   if room_num in single_line:
        fileObj = open("courseinfo.dat","w")
        fileObj.write(single_line)
        fileObj.close()
single_line = whole_thing.split('\n')
for single_line in text_file.readlines():
   if room_num in single_line:
        fileObj = open("courseinfo.dat","w")
        fileObj.write(single_line)
        fileObj.close()

If this isn't what you meant, please rephrase your question clearly and maybe include some sort of example of what "roombookings.txt" contains, etc.

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Re: How to save results from script to a txt file

Jul 6th, 2009

Sorry i should have been more descriptive

The Script

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room_num = raw_input("Enter your room number: ")
text_file = open("c:/roombookings.txt", "r")
whole_thing = text_file.readline()
 
if room_num in whole_thing:
    print "Room number found here is the information:"
else :
    print "Room number not found."
 
single_line = whole_thing.split('\n')
for single_line in text_file.readlines():
   if room_num in single_line:
      print single_line
 
fileObj = open("courseinfo.dat","w")
fileObj.write()
fileObj.close()
 
 
text_file.close()
room_num = raw_input("Enter your room number: ")
text_file = open("c:/roombookings.txt", "r")
whole_thing = text_file.readline()

if room_num in whole_thing:
    print "Room number found here is the information:"
else :
    print "Room number not found."

single_line = whole_thing.split('\n')
for single_line in text_file.readlines():
   if room_num in single_line:
      print single_line
      
fileObj = open("courseinfo.dat","w")
fileObj.write()
fileObj.close()


text_file.close()

roombookings.txt

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Date, Room, Course, Stage
6-3-07,L1,MSW001,1
6-3-07,L2,MSP201,1
6-3-07,L3,WEB201,1
6-3-07,L4,WEB101,1
6-3-07,L5,WEB101,1
7-3-07,L1,MSW001,2
7-3-07,L2,MSP201,2
7-3-07,L3,WEB201,2
7-3-07,L4,WEB101,2
7-3-07,L5,WEB101,2
8-3-07,L1,WEB101,1
8-3-07,L2,MSP201,3
Date, Room, Course, Stage
6-3-07,L1,MSW001,1
6-3-07,L2,MSP201,1
6-3-07,L3,WEB201,1
6-3-07,L4,WEB101,1
6-3-07,L5,WEB101,1
7-3-07,L1,MSW001,2
7-3-07,L2,MSP201,2
7-3-07,L3,WEB201,2
7-3-07,L4,WEB101,2
7-3-07,L5,WEB101,2
8-3-07,L1,WEB101,1
8-3-07,L2,MSP201,3

What i need to do is create a script that prompts the user for a room number(L1,L2 etc), then it should display each line relating to the room number the user entered.

I have managed to do this, however now i need to get it to save those results to a file called courseinfo.dat.

If i type in

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fileObj.write(single_line)
fileObj.write(single_line)

for some reason it always saves the third line of roombookings.txt no matter what the user inputs

What am i doing wrong here haha

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Re: How to save results from script to a txt file

Jul 6th, 2009

Ok, so I rewrote some stuff and commented it a bit to help you out.

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room_num = raw_input("Enter your room number: ")
text_file = open("roombookings.txt", "r")
# store a list containing the lines from the file
whole_thing = text_file.readlines()
 
# join all the lines into a string to search
if room_num in "".join(whole_thing):
    print "Room number found here is the information:"
else:
    print "Room number not found."
 
# we keep a list of lines that we want to save
lines_to_save = []
 
# cycle each line in our whole_thing list
for single_line in whole_thing:
    if room_num in single_line:
        print single_line
        # add the line to the saving list
        lines_to_save.append(single_line)
 
# here we open the output file
fileObj = open("courseinfo.dat","w")
# and join our saved lines into one string to write
fileObj.write("".join(lines_to_save))
fileObj.close()
 
text_file.close()
room_num = raw_input("Enter your room number: ")
text_file = open("roombookings.txt", "r")
# store a list containing the lines from the file
whole_thing = text_file.readlines()

# join all the lines into a string to search
if room_num in "".join(whole_thing):
    print "Room number found here is the information:"
else:
    print "Room number not found."
    
# we keep a list of lines that we want to save
lines_to_save = []

# cycle each line in our whole_thing list
for single_line in whole_thing:
    if room_num in single_line:
        print single_line
        # add the line to the saving list
        lines_to_save.append(single_line)
    
# here we open the output file
fileObj = open("courseinfo.dat","w")
# and join our saved lines into one string to write
fileObj.write("".join(lines_to_save))
fileObj.close()

text_file.close()

The comments explain the changes I made pretty well. You had a few issues like that readline() that I explained. You were on the right track though! Remember that the file write(str) function will overwrite all the file's contents with the string passed to it, so if you were to call it during the for loop, it would overwrite everything else it had saved before. Hence saving the lines to a list to write at the end. You could also create the file before-hand and then open it again in append mode, but this works fine for your problem. I hope the comments explain the code properly. If not, just ask me to clarify!

Last edited by shadwickman; Jul 6th, 2009 at 4:02 am.

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