How to read the text file format and write the same in to excel file as mentioned in the below format in python

Question

I want to read the data from the text file below and write it to an Excel sheet as explained further

The text file is formatted with each value on a new line.

The Excel file should have

• 'adobe' in row 0, column 1
• IE11.o to row 0, column 2

• 32 to row 0, column 3

• flash to row 1, column 1

• IE8.0 to row 1, column 2
• 24 to row 1, column 3

and so on for many rows

Answer 1

You probably want to read the text file, line by line, into a list . Then you can either export your data as a .csv file which excel can read, or directly as an excel file using a library like Openpyxl .

For example this code does what you've asked for, if you're happy to produce a .csv instead of an excel file:

fname = "" #path to file
csvname = "" #path to output csv

with open(fname) as f: #reads the file
    content = f.readlines() #writes lines to list
content = [x.strip() for x in content] #removes blank list values

names = content[0::3] #builds list of names
IEs = content[1::3] #builds list of IEs
numbers = content[2::3] #builds list of numbers

with open(csvname) as file: #creates csv file
    for i in range(len(content)/3): #runs through rows
        file.write(names[i]+","+IEs[i]+","+numbers[i]) #writing data to rows
        file.write('\n') #ends line after each row