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my_list = [
     'f5213095324 master/ActiveMasterManager.java              (Michael Stack      2010-08-31 23:51:44 +0000   1) /**',
     'f5213095324 master/ActiveMasterManager.java              (Michael Stack      2010-08-31 23:51:44 +0000   2)  *',
     'f5213095324 master/ActiveMasterManager.java              (Michael Stack      2010-08-31 23:51:44 +0000   3)  * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one',
     'f5213095324 master/ActiveMasterManager.java              (Michael Stack      2010-08-31 23:51:44 +0000   4)  * or more contributor license agreements.',
     'd6ed1130d51 master/ActiveMasterManager.java              (Michael Stack      2011-04-28 19:51:25 +0000 281) }'
     ]

import re
import csv
from time import sleep
def SpaceToDelimit(Str, orig, new, Nright):
    li = Str.rsplit(orig, Nright)
    return new.join(li)
def nth_repl(s, sub, repl, nth):
    find = s.find(sub)
    # if find is not p1 we have found at least one match for the substring
    i = find != -1
    # loop util we find the nth or we find no match
    while find != -1 and i != nth:
        # find + 1 means we start at the last match start index + 1
        find = s.find(sub, find + 1)
        i += 1
    # if i  is equal to nth we found nth matches so replace
    if i == nth:
        return s[:find]+repl+s[find + len(sub):]
    return s
spamreader = csv.reader(my_list, delimiter='\t', quotechar='|')
print "commit_id   | filename                        | committer     | date       | time     | line_number | code "
print "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
for row in spamreader:
    row = str(row)
    row = re.sub(' +',' ',row)
    sleep(1)
    rowz = (''.join(row))
    nl= rowz[2:-3]
    nl = nl.replace(" ", " | ", 8); nl = nl.replace("(",""); nl = nl.replace(")","")
    TEXT = nth_repl(nl, " | ", " ", 3)
    print TEXT

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