Match multiline regex in file object

Question

How can I extract the groups from this regex from a file object (data.txt)?

import numpy as np
import re
import os
ifile = open(\"data.txt\",\'r\')

# Regex          


        

Answer 1

You can read the data from the file object into a string with ifile.read()

Answer 2

Why don't you read the whole file into a buffer using

buffer = open("data.txt").read()

and then do a search with that?

Answer 3

times = [match.group(1) for match in pattern.finditer(ifile.read())]

finditer yield MatchObjects. If the regex doesn't match anything times will be an empty list.

You can also modify your regex to use non-capturing groups for storeU, storeI, iIx and avgCI, then pattern.findall will contain only matched times.

Note: naming variable time might shadow standard library module. times would be a better option.