#!/usr/bin/python
import cPickle
verbose=False # set to True to activate more print statements
oup=open('cgdata_040529.pickle','w')
inf=open('040529.txt','r')
lines=inf.readlines()
#header=lines[1][1:]
#fields=header.split('\t')
#if verbose: print "\n".join(fields)
hash={} #an empty dictionary.  It will eventually hold two items.
cgs=[]
hash['Readme']="""cg data file; each item is an array with 7 items:
Date    Time(UTC)    Latitude    Longitude  SignalStrength  amplitude(kA)  #ofstrikes"""
for line in lines:
	if line[0]=="#": continue #skip comments in file
	line=line.strip() #strip leading and trailing white spaces 
	v=line.split('\t') #split the string at tabs
	v=[x.strip() for x  in v] #strip every item in v
	if verbose: print len(v),v
	cgs.append(v)
hash['cgs']=cgs
cPickle.dump(hash,oup)
print "\n a dictionary with keys ",hash.keys()," was pickled in cgdata.pickle"
print """\n you can load this dictionary with statement:
 anyname=cPickle.load('cgdata_040529.pickle')"""