I am trying to write a script in Python 2.7.3 that can take a .csv file from an Excel spreadsheet and convert it to a format suitable for a LaTeX table. So I want to read a file, and write the data to a new text file, but with any commas replaced with ampersands, and a double backslash appended to the end of each line.
Example:
Input
A1,A2,A3
B1,B2,B3
C1,C2,C3
Desired Output
A1 & A2 & A3 \\
B1 & B2 & B3 \\
C1 & C2 & C3 \\
Here's what I have right now:
old_file = open(selected_file, "r")
new_file = open("texified_" + selected_file.replace("csv","txt"), "w")
#Creates new file with format texified_selected_file.txt
for line in old_file:
new_file.write(line.replace(",", " & ") + r" \\")
new_file.close()
old_file.close()
Right now it properly replaces the commas with the ampersand but doesn't add the double backslash. I thought this was because the backslash has special meaning, but even when making it a raw string it still doesn't work. It does add it to the end of the final line, however.
Actual Output
A1 & A2 & A3
B1 & B2 & B3
C1 & C2 & C3 \\
That is happening probably because there is a newline
already at the end of each line in your file, and not at the end of the last line
.
You can try stripping it, before appending the //
, and then add the newline separately: -
import os
ls = os.linesep
for line in old_file:
new_file.write(line.replace(",", " & ").rstrip() + r' \\ ' + ls)
I'm not sure whats wrong with your code (or with your input data), but I'd probably do it similar to this (probably less verbose):
for line in old_file:
line = line.strip() # remove newline/whitespace from begin and end of line
line = line.split(',') # get comma-separated values
line = " & ".join(line) # make it ampersand-separated values
line += r" \\" # add latex line break
line += "\n" # add file line break
new_file.write(line)
Or this way:
import jinja2
# define the latex template
template_str = r"""
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
%{ for line in table %} %{{line[0]%}} & %{{line[1]%}} & %{{line[2]%}} \\
%{ endfor %}
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}
"""
# initialize the rendering engine
renderer = jinja2.Environment(
block_start_string = '%{',
block_end_string = '%}',
variable_start_string = '%{{',
variable_end_string = '%}}'
)
template = renderer.from_string(template_str)
# bring the data array into shape
lines = [line.strip().split(',') for line in old_file]
# generate the tex source code
with open("test.tex", 'w+') as f:
f.write(template.render(table=lines))
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