Parsing attributes from adf.txt files

[haobijam]

Dear,
I would like to parse only the first line of each adf.txt files (i.e. attributes) . This python code could print individually for each file type, but i would like to run in one python code for all adf.txt files where the first line starts with only 4 different attribute terms like 'Composite Element Name | Block Column | Reporter Name | CompositeSequen ce Identifier' for all 35 different adf.txt files. I hereby attached only a zip file for 4 adf.txt files but for more files you may locate at this link ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/microarray/data/array Could you please rectify this script . I would be glad for your support and cooperation.

#!/usr/bin/python
import glob
#import linecache
outfile = open('out_att.txt' , 'w')
files = glob.glob('*.adf.txt')
for file in files:
    infile = open(file)
    #count = 0
    for line in infile:
        
        lineArray = line.rstrip()
        if not line.startswith('Composite Element Name') : continue
        #count = count + 1
        lineArray = line.split('%s\t')
        print lineArray[0]
        output = "%s\t\n"%(lineArray[0])
        outfile.write(output)
    infile.close()
outfile.close()

Regards,
Haobijam

[dwblas]

Note that this line does nothing, i.e. is backwards (use if-->do something), and TONYJV usually produces good code:

        if not line.startswith('Composite Element Name') : continue

Perhaps you meant something like

    fp = open(file)
    line = fp.readline()     ## reads first rec only

From here on you will have to produce your own code. Taking code from one forum and presenting it on another forum as your own is not ethical.