Python – Extracting only necessary elements from a string

I’m trying to extract only the parts I need from the table.

    2555    texttext    0   100 100 0   0   0   0   lowness 0
    2557    texttext    10  650 660 0   0   0   0   lowness 0
    2564    texttext    0   30  30  0   0   0   0   lowness 0
    2566    texttext    0   0   0   0   0   0   0   lowness 0
    2567    texttext    10  70  80  0   0   0   0   lowness 0

All I need is ‘text text’ and/ immediately followed by two numbers and ‘low’ as shown below.

    texttext    0   100 lowness
    texttext    10  650 lowness
    texttext    0   30  lowness
    texttext    0   0   lowness
    texttext    10  70  lowness

I tried this but failed.

text = """
    2555    texttext    0   100 100 0   0   0   0   lowness 0
    2557    texttext    10  650 660 0   0   0   0   lowness 0
    2564    texttext    0   30  30  0   0   0   0   lowness 0
    2566    texttext    0   0   0   0   0   0   0   lowness 0
    2567    texttext    10  70  80  0   0   0   0   lowness 0
"""

for a in text.split('\n'):
    if a == "":
        continue
    else:
        print(a)
        m = re.match('(^\D\d*\D)(\w*\s)(\d*\s)(\d*\s)(\d*\s\d*\s\d*\s\d*\s\d*\s)(\w+)', a)
        print(m)
        print(m.group(2), m.group(3), m.group(4), m.group(6))

I tried to group by regex and get the parts, but I got the following error: Help / print(m.group(2), m.group(3), m.group(4), m.group(6))
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘group’

>Solution :

If you absolutely want to use a regular expression:

import re

text = """
    2555    texttext    0   100 100 0   0   0   0   lowness 0
    2557    texttext    10  650 660 0   0   0   0   lowness 0
    2564    texttext    0   30  30  0   0   0   0   lowness 0
    2566    texttext    0   0   0   0   0   0   0   lowness 0
    2567    texttext    10  70  80  0   0   0   0   lowness 0
"""
pattern = re.compile(
    r"\s*\d+\s+(\w+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+\d+\s+\d+\s+\d+\s+\d+\s+\d+\s+(\w+)\s+"
)

for line in text.strip().split('\n'):
    match = re.search(pattern, line)
    print(*match.groups())

Output:

texttext 0 100 lowness
texttext 10 650 lowness
texttext 0 30 lowness
texttext 0 0 lowness
texttext 10 70 lowness

But if it is really the case that it’s always the same number of space-separated substrings of characters, then you might really be better off just splitting the lines by spaces:

for line in text.strip().split('\n'):
    parts = line.split()
    print(parts[1], parts[2], parts[3], parts[9])

Same output.