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Sep 21st, 2009
hi all,

i have a file that contains the following data (just a sample) :
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  1. 501 	 0 	 0.932 0.933 0.931 0.931 0.929 0.933 0.93 0.928 
  2. 501 	 1 	 0.974 0.98 0.978 0.976 0.974 0.974 
  3. 501 	 2 	 0.953 0.949 0.944 0.951 0.942 0.942 0.942 0.948 
  4. 501 	 3 	 0.933 0.934 0.934 0.935 0.931 0.933 0.932 0.934 
  5. 501 	 4 	 0.939 0.934 0.934 0.934 0.937 0.932 0.938 
  6. 501 	 5 	 0.944 0.942 0.942 0.943 0.939 0.95 0.942 0.948 
  7. 501 	 6 	 0.974 0.976 0.974 0.971 0.97 0.967 0.971 0.974 
  8. 501 	 7 	 0.986 0.984 0.984 0.986 0.986 0.984 
  9. 502 	 0 	 0.927 0.933 0.931 0.931 0.929 0.933 0.93 0.928 
  10. 502 	 1 	 0.974 0.98 0.978 0.976 0.973 0.971 0.974 
  11. 502 	 2 	 0.953 0.949 0.951 0.942 0.942 0.942 0.948 
  12. 502 	 3 	 0.933 0.934 0.934 0.935 0.931 0.933 0.932 0.931 
  13. 502 	 4 	 0.939 0.934 0.934 0.932 0.937 0.932 0.938 
  14. 502 	 5 	 0.944 0.942 0.942 0.943 0.939 0.95 0.95 0.948 
  15. 502 	 6 	 0.974 0.974 0.974 0.971 0.97 0.967 0.971 0.974 
  16. 502 	 7 	 0.986 0.984 0.984 0.986 0.984 0.986

and i parse it using the following commands :
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  1. file_hol = open("<file_name>.dat", "r")
  2. data_hol = []
  3. for line_hol in file_hol :
  4. 	line_hol = [float(x) for x in line_hol.split()]
  5. 	data_hol.append(tuple(line_hol))
  6. file_hol.close()
so, i get a list of lists with the name data_hol (everything is ok till now)

the 1st column is a timestamp
the 2nd column is a port number
what i would like to find is the port with the largest sum of the numbers of the rest of the columns
and, eventually, to have a list of ports where a port corresponds to a list of the port number and and the numbers (rest of the columns) with the largest sum,
so
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  1. pisa_hol = [0]
  2. for i in range(0, len(data_hol)) :
  3. 	if sum(data_hol[i][2:len(data_hol[i])]) > sum(pisa_hol[int(data_hol[i][1])][1:len(pisa_hol[int(data_hol[i][1])])]) :		pisa_hol[data_hol[i][1]] = data_hol[i][2, len(data_hol[i])]
what i get is "TypeError: len() of unsized object"

any ideas ?

thanx
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Re: a simple math problem

 
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It's hard to help you without the full traceback of the error but here's my two cents:

You're parsing the file contents incorrectly. What you should be doing is splitting each line at the tab character to get time stamp, port number, then the remaining string of floats. At this point you can sum the floats together and get a single float for your data list.

Here's how I would parse the data you provided:
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  1. >>> data_stor = []
  2. >>> for line in file_hol:
  3. ...     data = line.split('\t')
  4. ...     if len(data) == 3:
  5. ...         tstamp = data[0].strip()
  6. ...         port = data[1].strip()
  7. ...         valu = sum([float(ea) for ea in data[2].strip().split()])
  8. ...         data_stor.append([tstamp, port, valu])
  9. ...     
  10. >>> max(data_stor, key=lambda x:x[2])
  11. ['501', '6', 7.7770000000000001]
  12. >>>
This returns that port 6 at timestamp 501 has the highest sum of numbers.
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Re: a simple math problem

 
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Something like that might do. I avoided the use of float() until the end to keep time-stamp and port info from turning into floats:
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  1. raw_data = """\
  2. 501 	 0 	 0.932 0.933 0.931 0.931 0.929 0.933 0.93 0.928
  3. 501 	 1 	 0.974 0.98 0.978 0.976 0.974 0.974
  4. 501 	 2 	 0.953 0.949 0.944 0.951 0.942 0.942 0.942 0.948
  5. 501 	 3 	 0.933 0.934 0.934 0.935 0.931 0.933 0.932 0.934
  6. 501 	 4 	 0.939 0.934 0.934 0.934 0.937 0.932 0.938
  7. 501 	 5 	 0.944 0.942 0.942 0.943 0.939 0.95 0.942 0.948
  8. 501 	 6 	 0.974 0.976 0.974 0.971 0.97 0.967 0.971 0.974
  9. 501 	 7 	 0.986 0.984 0.984 0.986 0.986 0.984
  10. 502 	 0 	 0.927 0.933 0.931 0.931 0.929 0.933 0.93 0.928
  11. 502 	 1 	 0.974 0.98 0.978 0.976 0.973 0.971 0.974
  12. 502 	 2 	 0.953 0.949 0.951 0.942 0.942 0.942 0.948
  13. 502 	 3 	 0.933 0.934 0.934 0.935 0.931 0.933 0.932 0.931
  14. 502 	 4 	 0.939 0.934 0.934 0.932 0.937 0.932 0.938
  15. 502 	 5 	 0.944 0.942 0.942 0.943 0.939 0.95 0.95 0.948
  16. 502 	 6 	 0.974 0.974 0.974 0.971 0.97 0.967 0.971 0.974
  17. 502 	 7 	 0.986 0.984 0.984 0.986 0.984 0.986"""
  18.  
  19. fname = "my_data.dat"
  20. # write the test file
  21. fout = open(fname, "w")
  22. fout.write(raw_data)
  23. fout.close()
  24.  
  25. # read the test file
  26. fin = open(fname, "r")
  27. data_hol = []
  28. for line_hol in fin:
  29.     line_hol = [x for x in line_hol.split() ]
  30.     data_hol.append(tuple(line_hol))
  31.  
  32. my_datalist = []
  33. for line in data_hol:
  34.     #print(line[1], line[2:])  # test
  35.     port = line[1]
  36.     # now you can use float()
  37.     data_sum = sum([float(x) for x in line[2:]])
  38.     my_datalist.append((port, data_sum))
  39.  
  40. # test the list of (port, data_sum) tuples
  41. for tup in my_datalist:
  42.     print(tup)
  43.  
  44. """my output -->
  45. ('0', 7.4470000000000001)
  46. ('1', 5.8559999999999999)
  47. ('2', 7.5709999999999997)
  48. ('3', 7.4660000000000002)
  49. ('4', 6.548)
  50. ('5', 7.5500000000000007)
  51. ('6', 7.7770000000000001)
  52. ('7', 5.9099999999999993)
  53. ('0', 7.4420000000000002)
  54. ('1', 6.8260000000000005)
  55. ('2', 6.6270000000000007)
  56. ('3', 7.4630000000000001)
  57. ('4', 6.5460000000000003)
  58. ('5', 7.5579999999999998)
  59. ('6', 7.7749999999999995)
  60. ('7', 5.9099999999999993)
  61. """
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thank you all, what i really needed was the max. sum for every port,
your comments were very helpful

the final version is :
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  1. pisa_hol = {}
  2. file_hol = open("/.../hol.dat", "r")
  3. data_hol = []
  4. for line_hol in file_hol :
  5. 	data_hol = line_hol.split('\t')
  6. 	if len(data_hol) == 3 :
  7. 		port = int(data_hol[1].strip())
  8. 		cells = [float(x) for x in data_hol[2].strip().split()]
  9. 		weight = sum(cells)
  10. 		if pisa_hol.has_key(port) :
  11. 			if sum(pisa_hol[port]) < sum(cells) :
  12. 				pisa_hol[port] = cells
  13. 		else :
  14. 			pisa_hol[port] = cells
  15. 	else :
  16. 		print "ERROR : Input data are NOT formated properly !"
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hi again,

given that
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  1. 501 	 0 	 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 
  2. 501 	 1 	 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 
  3. 501 	 2 	 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.965 0.0 0.0 
  4. 501 	 3 	 0.0 0.952 0.0 0.951 0.949 0.0 0.0 0.947 
  5. 501 	 4 	 0.965 0.0 0.963 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.962 0.0 
  6. 501 	 5 	 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 
  7. 501 	 6 	 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 
  8. 501 	 7 	 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 
  9. 502 	 0 	 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 
  10. 502 	 1 	 0.0 0.0 0.98 0.0 0.0 0.979 0.0 0.0 
  11. 502 	 2 	 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 
  12. 502 	 3 	 0.947 0.0 0.0 0.945 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 
  13. 502 	 4 	 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 
  14. 502 	 5 	 0.0 0.965 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.964 0.0
and that
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  1. cells = [float(x) for x in data_hol[2].strip().split()]
where data_hol[2] is the 3rd column of the a file, that contains a batch of floats,
HOW can i insert into the list "cells" only the NON-zero items ?
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  1. cells = [float(x) for x in data_hol[2].strip().split()]
where data_hol[2] is the 3rd column of the a file, that contains a batch of floats,
HOW can i insert into the list "cells" only the NON-zero items ?
If you want to ignore the items that are 0.0:
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  1. cells = [float(x) for x in data_hol[2].strip().split() if x != 
  2. '0.0']

Keep in mind however that the ports with all 0.0 will result in an empty list named cells , which potentially could break other code. Just ensure that your list handling is going to account for the possibility of empty lists.
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