#!/usr/bin/python3 """ Python script for converting journals abbreviation files to CSV format. Dependencies: pandas Usage: python3 convert_txt2csv.py """ import glob import os import pandas as pd import csv for file in glob.glob("journals/*.txt"): fileName, _fileExtension = os.path.splitext(file) commented_lines = 0 with open(file) as f: for line in f: if not line.strip().startswith("#") and line.strip(): separator = " = " if " = " in line else "=" break commented_lines += 1 df = pd.read_csv(fileName + ".txt", sep=separator, skiprows=commented_lines, header=None, engine="python", skipinitialspace=True, index_col=0, names=["Name", "Abbrev"]) df.index = df.index.str.strip() df = df.Abbrev.str.split(",", expand=True) df.to_csv(fileName + ".csv", sep=",", header=False, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL) print(fileName + ".csv")