TXTure

Surgically edit machine-readable ASCII files

TXTure Provides intuitive ways to work with data in text files.

Installation

Add TXTure to a uv-managed project:

uv add TXTure

Or install it into the active environment:

uv pip install TXTure
# or
pip install TXTure

Usage

import TXTure as txt
lines = txt.read(path_to_txt_file)  # list of lines
i = txt.findKey(lines, ['key1', 'key2'])
found_line = lines[i]
print(found_line)

Below are the basic primitives used. By convention:

• lines is a list of strings previously read from a text file.

• A key is a string or list of strings specifying where to search within the lines from the text file.

• A list of keys searches for each string in sequence and stops after finding the final key. The matching line index, the full line, or the text following the key may be important.

• A sequence is a group of lines that all start with the same key, for example:

  Plan File=p01
  Plan File=p03
  Plan File=p04
  Plan File=p02
  

• A block is a continuous partition of lines delimited by the lines found at two keys.

• Free software: MIT license