- The goal is to extract specific data from a text file under a folder
- then write that data into another file under different folder
- The extraction part works, save to variables and can even print them
- The rises when you try to write them to a file
- The file is empty
- Need to write in this format
{self.title};;;{self.author};;;{self.release_date};;;
{self.last_update_date};;;{self.language};;;{self.producer};;;{self.book_path}
# This class includes all the operations related to a book
class Operation:
"""
Need to include these class variables
book_title_list (List of all books titles such as “[title1, title2, title3, …]”)
book_info_dict = “{title1: obj1, title2:obj2, title3:obj3…….}”)
"""
book_folder_path = './data/books_data/'
book_info_path = './data/result_data/books.txt'
def extract_book_info(self):
directory_files = os.listdir(self.book_folder_path) # Stores the .txt files under books_data folder
try:
for i in directory_files:
with open(f'{self.book_folder_path}/{i}', 'r', encoding='utf8') as f:
f_contents = f.readlines()
f_line_free = list(map(lambda x: x.strip(), f_contents))
f_lists = f_line_free[10:22] # Slicing only the required elements of the list
"""
Extracting only the necessary part and storing them
under proper variables
"""
title = f_lists[0]
author = f_lists[2]
release_date = f_lists[4]
last_update_date = f_lists[5]
language = f_lists[7]
producer = f_lists[11]
"""
Extracting the desired values
"""
title_data = title[7:]
author_data = author[8:]
release_date_data = release_date[14:]
last_update_date_data = last_update_date[24:-1]
language_data = language[10:]
producer_data = producer[13:]
print(title_data)
with open(self.book_info_path, 'w', encoding="utf8") as wf:
wf.write(f'{title_data};;;{author_data};;;{release_date_data};;;'
f'{last_update_date_data};;;{language_data};;;{producer_data};;;{self.book_info_path}\n')
return True
except FileNotFoundError:
return False
except Exception:
return False