How do I check for EOF in Python? I found a bug in my code where the last block of text after the separator isn't added to the return list. Or maybe there's a better way of expressing this function?
Here's my code:
def get_text_blocks(filename):
text_blocks = []
text_block = StringIO.StringIO()
with open(filename, 'r') as f:
for line in f:
text_block.write(line)
print line
if line.startswith('-- -'):
text_blocks.append(text_block.getvalue())
text_block.close()
text_block = StringIO.StringIO()
return text_blocks
You might find it easier to solve this using itertools.groupby.
def get_text_blocks(filename):
import itertools
with open(filename,'r') as f:
groups = itertools.groupby(f, lambda line:line.startswith('-- -'))
return [''.join(lines) for is_separator, lines in groups if not is_separator]
Another alternative is to use a regular expression to match the separators:
def get_text_blocks(filename):
import re
seperator = re.compile('^-- -.*', re.M)
with open(filename,'r') as f:
return re.split(seperator, f.read())