Delete timestamp in my output file in excel using python

February 21, 2022

I need to remove timestamps in my file. It should only return the name. My source text file looks like this

7:52:01 AM sherr
hello GOOD morning .
おはようございます。
7:52:09 AM sherr
Who ?
誰?
7:52:16 AM sherr
OK .
わかりました

and my code looks like this

from openpyxl import Workbook
import copy

wb = Workbook()

with open('chat_20220207131707.txt', encoding='utf-8') as sherr:
    row = 1
    column = 1
    ws = wb.active
    for line in sherr:
        ws.cell(row=row, column=column, value=line.strip())
        if (column := column + 1) > 3:
            row += 1
            column = 1

    for row in ws.iter_rows():
        for cell in row:      
            alignment = copy.copy(cell.alignment)
            alignment.wrapText=True
            cell.alignment = alignment
            
    wb.save('sherrplease.xlsx')

>Solution :

If the file always has the same structure, which it certainly looks like, this can be done with simple splitting of the string in question.

from openpyxl import Workbook
import copy

wb = Workbook()

with open('chat_20220207131707.txt', encoding='utf-8') as sherr:
    row = 1
    column = 1
    ws = wb.active
    for line in sherr:
        if column == 1:
            ## split the line and rejoin
            value = " ".join(line.strip().split(' ')[2:])
        else:
            value = line.strip()
        ws.cell(row=row, column=column, value=value)
        if (column := column + 1) > 3:
            row += 1
            column = 1

    for row in ws.iter_rows():
        for cell in row:      
            alignment = copy.copy(cell.alignment)
            alignment.wrapText=True
            cell.alignment = alignment
            
    wb.save('sherrplease.xlsx')