import fileinput
for line in fileinput.input("emaillist.txt"):
line=line.rstrip('\n\r ')
line= line.split('=')
newlin = line[1]
why is this not valid? I am trying to break up the nasty looking line of text and make something useful out of it? Doesnt the split() function produce a list, which you can address via list[x] ?
Thanks!!!!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./clean.py", line 8, in <module>
newlin = line[1]
IndexError: list index out of range
You could use line.partition('=')[2] if '=' is sometimes missing:
>>> 'a = b'.partition('=')
('a ', '=', ' b')
>>> 'a'.partition('=')
('a', '', '')
Compare it to split():
>>> 'a = b'.split('=')
['a ', ' b']
>>> 'a'.split('=')
['a']
Doesnt the split() function produce a list, which you can address via list[x] ?
Yes. But if the list only has one element then you can't index it with anything non-negative other than 0.
>>> 'foo'.split('=')
['foo']
Try checking to see how many parts the line was split into first:
import fileinput
for line in fileinput.input("emaillist.txt"):
line = line.rstrip('\n\r ').split('=')
if len(line) > 1:
newline = line[1]
# ...
else:
# do something else...
Or, in 1 line ([line.rstrip('\n\r ').split('=')[1] for line in fileinput.input("emaillist.txt") if len(line.rstrip('\n\r ').split('=')) > 1]):
emaillist.txt:
emails = [line.rstrip('\n\r ').split('=')[1] for line in fileinput.input("emaillist.txt") if len(line.rstrip('\n\r ').split('=')) > 1]
print emails
['[email protected]', '[email protected]']
