I am running into some problems trying to read a file correctly.
I only have a code to show what I'm trying to aim for slightly. But I want to read each chunk of data (four lines) and insert each of those chunks into an array. I also need to separate 'city', 'state', and 'zip' from each other.
I understand that I'm supposed to read the file, for each chunk I read until an empty line, within that I would check to see if it is the third line and if so parse each part into its own element, and do all that till the end. I am, however, having trouble with the coding part with Python. I am not too familiar with Python.
My data:
Name
address
city, state zip
phone number
//empty line
Name
address
....
My code:
with open('tester_everything.txt') as f:
mylist = []
i=0
for lines in f:
other_list = []
if lines == '\n':
mylist.append(other_list)
other_list = []
other_list.insert(i, lines)
i = i+1
print mylist
f.close()
This creates all empty elements inside mylist.
with open('tester_everything.txt') as f:
mylist = []
other_list = []
for lines in f:
if lines == '\n':
mylist.append(other_list)
other_list = []
else:
other_list.append(lines)
print mylist