Save lines of txt file into csv

Question

I have a txt file that looks like this

a,b,c
0,0,0
0,0,0
*
x,y,z
1,1,1
1,1,1
*
u,v,w
9,9,9
9,9,9
*

I would like to save every three lines excluding the asterisk into csv files so my csv files look like this.

0.csv

a,b,c
0,0,0
0,0,0

1.csv

x,y,z
1,1,1
1,1,1

2.csv

u,v,w
9,9,9
9,9,9

Is there any efficient way to do this? Thank you so much.

Answer 1

You can use itertools.groupby to "split" the file into separate groups:

from itertools import groupby

with open("your_file.txt", "r") as f_in:
    i = 0
    for is_asterisk, lines in groupby(f_in, lambda line: line.strip() == "*"):
        if not is_asterisk:
            print("Writing {}.csv".format(i))
            with open("{}.csv".format(i), "w") as f_out:
                f_out.writelines(lines)
            i += 1

Prints:

Writing 0.csv
Writing 1.csv
Writing 2.csv

and saves the files.