#!/usr/bin/env python
'''
Merge/Join/Combine lines of multiple input files.
Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each input file, separated by whitespace character, to output file.
TODO: implements params like https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/paste.c
'''
import sys
from contextlib import ExitStack
from itertools import zip_longest
def main(args):
if len(args) < 3:
print(sys.argv[0] + ' [...] ')
sys.exit(0)
mergeFiles(args[:len(args)-1], args[len(args)-1])
def mergeFiles(inputFileNames, outputFileName, delimiterChar=" ", fillValue="-"):
with ExitStack() as eStack:
inputFiles = [eStack.enter_context(open(fileName, 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')) for fileName in inputFileNames]
with open(outputFileName, 'w', encoding='utf-8', errors='replace') as outputFile:
for tupleOfLineFiles in zip_longest(*inputFiles, fillvalue=fillValue):
outputFile.write(delimiterChar.join(map(str.strip, tupleOfLineFiles)) + "\n")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(sys.argv[1:])