Thanks a lot. That works great. I can't belive how close I was in the end. Well that was the last lines of this application, so thanks a lot.
And thanks for the tip about the portability stuff. I can't belive I didn't think about that. Been writing to much in non portable languages and libs like DirectX lately. Thanks ии -----Original Message----- From: Larry Bates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:55 PM To: Oyvind Ostlund Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Reading files into a 2D list. Few observations. 1) Don't concatenate pathnames yourself use os.path.join, that makes your code portable. lexi_file = open(os.path.join(sys.path[0],"lexi",files), "r") 2) Start with an empty list and append your "lines" lists: files_and_lines=[] filenumber = 0 for files in file_names: fpath=os.path.join(sys.path[0]),"lexi", files) try: lexi_file = open(fpath, "r") files_and_lines.append(lexi_file.readlines()) except(IOError): print "Something went wrong trying to read the file:" print "'%s'" % fpath lexi_file.close() # Remember to close each file Now you have: files_and_lines[0][0] -> Line 1 of the first file files_and_lines[0][1] -> Line 2 of the first file . . . files_and_lines[0][n] -> Line n of the first file files_and_lines[1][0] -> Line 1 of the second file . . . Larry Bates Oyvind Ostlund wrote: > I am not sure what the right syntax is here. So please help me out (started 2 > days ago). > > I have a list of about 20 files that I want to read line by line into a 2D > list. So the first dimension will be each file, and the second every line in > that file. > > > I tried to do something like this: > > files_and_lines = [][] > filenumber = 0 > > for files in file_names: > try: > lexi_file = open(str(sys.path[0]) + "/lexi/" + files, "r") > files_and_lines[filenumber] = lexi_file.readlines() > filenumber = filenumber + 1 > > except(IOError): > print "Something went wrong trying to read the file:" > print "'" + str(sys.path[0]) + files + "'" > > > > But that was not very sucksessfully. I am not even sure on how to define an > empty 2D list. Thanks for all help. > > ии -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
