can you open .doc or .fa in python? or how do i transfer this data to python?

[lel7lel7]

Hi,

I am struggling to analyse a 100,000KB dna sequence file in word.... it keeps trying to 'repaginate' and freezes....

Is there anyway i can open this data in python so i can analyse it? I have it in .fa format and in .doc

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help :)
Lesley

[Glenton]

Try this on you .fa:

myFile=open("YOURFILENAME.fa")

for n,i in enumerate(myFile):
    print n,i
    if n>=10: break

This will print the first 10 lines and hopefully tell you what's possible. Of course it's possible that it's all one big line! In which case it gets more interesting!!

[woooee]

Antiword will convert to a text file (I'm assuming that is latin-1). It is available for most operating systems. Don't know which OS you are using, so can't point to the specific page for the OS http://www.winfield.demon.nl/#Windows