I am new to this forum and to programming and apologize in advance if I violate any of the forum rules. I have researched this extensively, but I couldn't find a solution for my problem.
So I have a very long file that has this general structure:
data="""
20.020001 563410 9
20.520001 577410 20
21.022001 591466 9
21.522001 605466 120
23.196001 652338 2
25.278001 710634 7
25.780001 724690 144
26.280001 738690 9
26.782001 752746 40
27.282001 766746 9
27.784001 780802 140
29.372001 825266 2
31.458001 883674 7
31.958002 897674 8
32.458002 911674 9
32.958002 925674 10
"""
I imported the file using
with open("C:\blablabla\text.txt", 'r+') as infile:
data = infile.read()
Now I am trying to use a regular expression to find all lines that end with 140 through 146, so I did this:
items=re.findall('.......................14[0-6]\n',data,re.MULTILINE)
for x in items:
print x
This works, but when I now try to copy those lines that contain the regular expression,
for x in items:
if items in data:
data.write(items)
I get the following error:
if items in data:
TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not list
I understand what the problem is, but I don't know how to solve it. How can I feed the left operand a string when the outcome of my regex is a list?
Any help is much appreciated!