Advanced read in a TXT file

Work data in a TXT file according the line number

You can grab data in a TXT file according the line number, or counting a number of lines before or after a specific string.

file = open('C:/Users/Georges/Downloads/MyFile.txt', 'r')
lines = file.readlines()
 
listSubject = []
listFirstname = []
 
for num, x in enumerate(lines):
    if x.startswith('Subject:\t'):
        listSubject.append(x)
        listFirstname.append(lines[num+6])
 
MergeLists = list(zip(listSubject, listFirstname))
 
df = pd.DataFrame(MergeLists, columns=['field Subject', 'field Firstname'])

Get encoding of a file

from chardet import detect
 
def get_encoding_type(file):
    with open(file, 'rb') as f:
        rawdata = f.read()
    return detect(rawdata)['encoding']
 
from_codec = get_encoding_type(MyFile)
 
print('from_codec')
print(from_codec)

Read a txt file containing a comma separated list of numbers and make a list in python

with open(pluImport + '\\' + file, 'r') as myFile:
    fileContent = myFile.read()
 
    # You can add some formating if needy
    # fileContent = myFile.read().replace("'", '').replace('"', '')
 
myList = [int(myNumber) for myNumber in fileContent.split(',')]

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