I wrote a script in Python removing tabs/blank spaces between two columns of strings (x,y coordinates) plus separating the columns by a comma and listing the maximum and minimum values of each column (2 values for each the x and y coordinates). E.g.:
100000.00 60000.00
200000.00 63000.00
300000.00 62000.00
400000.00 61000.00
500000.00 64000.00
became:
100000.00,60000.00
200000.00,63000.00
300000.00,62000.00
400000.00,61000.00
500000.00,64000.00
10000000 50000000 60000000 640000000
This is the code I used:
import string
input = open(r'C:\coordinates.txt', 'r')
output = open(r'C:\coordinates_new.txt', 'wb')
s = input.readline()
while s <> '':
s = input.readline()
liste = s.split()
x = liste[0]
y = liste[1]
output.write(str(x) + ',' + str(y))
output.write('\n')
s = input.readline()
input.close()
output.close()
I need to change the above code to also transform the coordinates from two decimal to one decimal values and each of the two new columns to be sorted in ascending order based on the values of the x coordinate (left column).
I started by writing the following but not only is it not sorting the values, it is placing the y coordinates on the left and the x on the right. In addition I don't know how to transform the decimals since the values are strings and the only function I know is using %f and that needs floats. Any suggestions to improve the code below?
import string
input = open(r'C:\coordinates.txt', 'r')
output = open(r'C:\coordinates_sorted.txt', 'wb')
s = input.readline()
while s <> '':
s = input.readline()
liste = string.split(s)
x = liste[0]
y = liste[1]
output.write(str(x) + ',' + str(y))
output.write('\n')
sorted(s, key=lambda x: x[o])
s = input.readline()
input.close()
output.close()
thanks!