Question

I have a file with data like:

  Entry   Freq.
    2     4.5
    3     3.4
    5     4.9
    8     9.1
    12    11.1
    16    13.1
    18    12.2
    22    11.2

now the problem I am trying to solve is: I want to make it a grouped data (with range 10) based on the Entry and want to add up the frequencies falling within the range.
e.g. for above table if I group it then it should be like:

    Range   SumFreq.
     0-10    21.9(i.e. 4.5 + 3.4 + 4.9 + 9.1)
     11-20   36.4

I reached upto column separation with following code but can’t be able to perform range separation thing:
my code is:

inp = ("c:/usr/ovisek/desktop/file.txt",'r').read().strip().split('\n')
for line in map(str.split,inp):
    k = int(line[0])
    l = float(line[-1])

so far is fine but how could I be able to group the data in 10 range.

Answer 1

you can do something like this:

fr = {}
inp = open("file.txt",'r').read().strip().split('\n')
for line in map(str.split,inp):
    k = int(line[0])
    l = float(line[-1])
    key = abs(k-1) / 10 * 10

    if fr.has_key(key):
        fr[key] += l
    else:
        fr[key] = l

for k in sorted(fr.keys()):
    sum = fr[k]
    print '%d-%d\t%f' % (k+1 if k else 0, k+10, sum) 

output:

0-10    21.900000
11-20   36.400000
21-30   11.200000