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September 5, 2012 14:17
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A small and ugly program for organizing collections of .csv data, for Python v. 2.6.x
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| import sys | |
| import csv | |
| if len(sys.argv) >= 4: | |
| try: | |
| file1 = open(sys.argv[1], "r") | |
| keyw = sys.argv[2] | |
| file2 = open(sys.argv[3], "w") | |
| datat = csv.DictReader(file1) | |
| items = [] | |
| keywords = [] | |
| for row in datat: | |
| items.append(row) | |
| if row[keyw] not in keywords: | |
| keywords.append(row[keyw]) | |
| keywords.sort() | |
| n = 0 | |
| for name in datat.fieldnames: | |
| if n == 0: | |
| file2.write(name) | |
| n += 1 | |
| else: | |
| file2.write("," + name) | |
| file2.write("\n") | |
| outputs = csv.DictWriter(file2, datat.fieldnames) | |
| n = 0 | |
| while n < len(keywords): | |
| for item in items: | |
| if item[keyw] == keywords[n]: | |
| outputs.writerow(item) | |
| n += 1 | |
| file1.close() | |
| file2.close() | |
| print '...Done.' | |
| except IOError: | |
| print 'Something went wrong with files! Exiting.' | |
| else: | |
| print 'Not enough arguments were given.' |
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