Deleting rows in a txt-document using Python

[MaximilianSesselmann]

Hi,

first of all, sorry for my poor english...

HERE'S MY PROBLEM:
I have a txt-file in which XY coordinates are stored.
I want to load these coordinates using the WARP-tool. So far, this is no problem but in the first row of the txt- document is some text. Unfortunatly the WARP-tool can only read the coordinates, when there is NO text in front of them.

WHAT I WANT:
of course I could delete the text manually, but I want to have it done automatically. I think this should be possible because the text is always in the first row(s) of the text-document.
The optimal solution for me would be an Python-Script that says: " 1) load all txt-files in the folder C:\... 2) for each file, delete the first 1 or 2 rows 3) save/overwrite the modified files "
In  the end I want to include the script into the Model Builder...

Thanks in advance!
Max

[JakeSkinner]

Hi Max,

Here is an example how you can remove the beginning lines that contain strings of each text file using the OS and GLOB modules:

import os, glob

strings = ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")
for file in glob.glob(r"C:\temp\python\*.txt"):
    lines = open(file).readlines()
    with open(file) as myFile:
        for num, line in enumerate(myFile, 1):
            if any(s in line for s in strings):
                val = num
    try:
        open(r'C:\temp\python\newfile.txt', 'w').writelines(lines[val:])
        os.remove(file)
        os.rename(r'C:\temp\python\newfile.txt', file)
    except IndexError:
        pass

[BerndGrubert]

Hi, Max.

Maybe this would solve your problem:

Open the textfile in Excel and then build a macro for the correction in the file. Then you can use the macro for every file you have to correct.