Counting number of columns in text file with Python -
i have 2 text files composed of spaced-separated columns. these excerpts of these 2 files:
filea
1 1742.420 -0.410 20.1530 0.4190 1.7080 0.5940 2 1872.060 0.070 21.4710 0.2950 0.0670 0.3380 3 1918.150 0.150 18.9220 0.0490 1.4240 0.1150 4 1265.760 0.170 19.0850 0.0720 1.3330 0.1450 5 308.880 0.220 20.5020 0.1570 0.0200 0.1720 ....
fileb
1 1198.367 6.465 15.684 0.015 3.119 0.140 1 2 1451.023 6.722 17.896 0.031 0.171 0.041 1 3 1032.364 6.788 18.895 0.074 -0.084 0.088 1 4 984.509 7.342 19.938 0.171 0.043 0.322 1 5 1068.536 7.369 19.182 0.091 0.486 0.143 1 ....
as can see filea has 7 columns , fileb has 8. code use count columns:
import csv file = 'filename' reader = csv.reader(file) num_cols = 0 col in reader: num_cols = num_cols + 1
this little code correctly gives number of columns filea (7) not fileb (also gives 7) what's going on , how can fix it?
if i'm counting rows instead of columns then: 1- how can count columns? , 2- given actual files have several thousands of lines/rows, why getting these results (7)?
import csv open('filename') f: reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter=' ', skipinitialspace=true) first_row = next(reader) num_cols = len(first_row)
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