Question

I am quite new in python.I want to get unique string from a file.txt
I have some data like so…

Tempranillo     Rioja_%28wine%29%23Wine_regions
Gr%C3%BCner_Veltliner       Czech_Republic_%28wine%29
Marsanne        California_%28wine%29
Carm%C3%A9n%C3%A8re     Wines_of_Chile
Carm%C3%A9n%C3%A8re     Washington_%28U.S._state%29
Gr%C3%BCner_Veltliner       Czech_Republic_%28wine%29

So, I have tried with the following code:

import re
import string
import urllib

for line in open('file.txt', 'r').readlines():
    left, right = string.split(line)
    relation = string.split(line)


    dom = relation[0]
    rang = relation[1]

    dom = urllib.unquote(relation[0])
    dom = dom.replace('_', ' ')


    rang= urllib.unquote(relation[1])
    rang = rang.replace('_', ' ')

How to proceed further.I need to get unique co-occurrence of (dom rang) in this format:

Tempranillo     Rioja (wine) Wine regions
Marsanne        California (wine)

Any kind of help will be greatly appreciated.Thanks!

Answer 1

I would recommend using urllib2 — and a functional style is good for string processing like this:

import urllib2

def process_item(x):
    return urllib2.unquote(x).replace('_', ' ')

def process_line(line):
    return tuple(process_item(i) for i in line.split())

with open('t.txt', 'r') as infile:
    unique_wines = set(process_line(l) for l in infile)

for dom, rang in sorted(unique_wines):
    print dom, ':', rang