Convert a space delimited file to comma separated values file in python

Question

I am very new to Python. I know that this has already been asked, and I apologise, but the difference in this new situation is that spaces between strings are not equal. I

Answer 1

You can use python pandas, I have written your data to data.csv:

import pandas as pd
>>> df = pd.read_csv('data.csv',sep='\s+',header=None)
>>> df
     0  1  2         3         4  5
0    1  C  6  0.000000  1.342650  0
1    2  C  6  0.000000 -1.342650  0
2    3  C  6  2.325539  2.685301  0
3    4  C  6  2.325539 -2.685301  0
4    5  C  6  4.651077  1.342650  0
5    6  C  6  4.651077 -1.342650  0
...

The great thing about this is to access the underlying numpy array you can use df.values:

>>> type(df.values)

To save the data frame with comma delimiters:

>>> df.to_csv('data_out.csv',header=None)

Pandas is a great library for managing large amounts of data, as a bonus it works well with numpy. There is also a very good chance that this will be much faster then using the csv module.