Glen D souza <glenpo...@gmail.com> wrote: > i have a approach, it may not be best > > fld = [ ] > for data in shlex.split(ln): > fld.append(data) > It's certainly simple! :-)
I (OP) have actually done something quite similar:- fld = shlex.split(ln) fld.append(999) fld.append(999) It means I can test for '999' as when read from ln they are text fields and it's text I have created so (unless I get *very* confused) it will never be 999. -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list