On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:14 PM, J <dreadpiratej...@gmail.com> wrote: > Something that came up in class... > > when you are pulling data from a file using f.next(), the file is read > one line at a time. > > What was explained to us is that Python iterates the file based on a > carriage return as the delimiter. > But what if you have a file that has one line of text, but that one > line has 16,000 items that are comma delimited? > > Is there a way to read the file, one item at a time, delimited by > commas WITHOUT having to read all 16,000 items from that one line, > then split them out into a list or dictionary??
If f is a file object, f.read(1) will get the next byte of the file. Get single-character strings that way until you arrive at a ",", then concatenate what you have received before that. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
