Hello to all!! I am new in python, and I am running it on Mac with Smultron editor. I need to read a textfile that includes numbers (in a matrix form), indexes, and strings, like this:
Marsyas-kea distance matrix for MIREX 2007 Audio Similarity Exchange Q/R 1 2 3 4 5 1 0 4.54592 4.36685 5.29463 3.85728 2 4.54592 0 3.97667 5.02151 4.64284 3 4.36685 3.97667 0 4.98743 4.83683 4 5.29463 5.02151 4.98743 0 6.04393 5 3.85728 4.64284 4.83683 6.04393 0 My code to get this information is: matrix = open("dmatrix_5.txt"); while 1: mat = matrix.readline() if not mat: break pass # do something print mat So I just want to keep the matrix in the "middle" for math computations. 0 4.54592 4.36685 5.29463 3.85728 4.54592 0 3.97667 5.02151 4.64284 4.36685 3.97667 0 4.98743 4.83683 5.29463 5.02151 4.98743 0 6.04393 3.85728 4.64284 4.83683 6.04393 0 I've seen and tried a lot of ways, like split or isinstance.. but never get the wanted result.... does anyone have an idea, or hint? Thank you once more for your help! Best Regards, Bea -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list