2012-08-11 69 views
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我正在带一个标题行的csv文件(称为aggregate_file),按列进行排序,并将其重新写入另一个csv文件(称为sorted_file)。我想要排序的列标题由variable_names指定。为什么我的csv排序功能不起作用?

def sortbyCounty(aggregate_file, sorted_file, *variable_names): 
    f = open(aggregate_file, 'r') 
    readit = csv.reader(f) 
    headers = readit.next() 
    col_indices = [] 
    for var in variable_names: 
     col_indices.append(headers.index(var)) 
    print col_indices 
    thedata = list(readit) 
    thedata.sort(key=operator.itemgetter(col_indices)) 
    fx = open(sorted_file, 'w') 
    writeit = csv.writer(fx) 
    writeit.writerow(headers) 
    writeit.writerows(thedata) 
    writeit.close() 
    return sorted_file 

接下来,我调用这个函数下面几行:

aggregate_file = "Aggregate_test90.csv" 
sorted_file = "County_test90.csv" 
variable_names = 'CTYCODE90' 
test = sortbyCounty(aggregate_file, sorted_file, *variable_names) 

这是我的错误信息:

col_indices.append(headers.index(var)) 
ValueError: list.index(x): x not in list 

然而,当我printheaders名单,我可以清楚地看到我的变量是存在的:

['_STATE90', 'HEIGHT90', 'WEIGHT90', '_BMI90', 'AGE90', 'CTYCODE90', 'IYEAR90', 'SEX90', '_RFOBESE90'] 

所以我不明白为什么我收到这个错误信息。我错过了什么?

回答

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variable_names应该是listtuple的字符串。作为字符串也表现得像序列,*variable_names是把你的函数调用到这一点:

sortbyCounty(aggregate_file, sorted_file, 'C', 'T', 'Y', 'C', 'O', 'D', 'E', '9', '0') 

当你显然希望函数调用是这样的:

sortbyCounty(aggregate_file, sorted_file, 'CTYCODE90') 

制作variable_names列表或元组的字符串应该这样做。

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