read file problem

[Ernesto]

I'm just want to read in the contents of a (text) file.  The text file
is filled with semiColon delimited floating point strings...

0.456;1.265;99.742;...

For some reason, I can't get the contents back when I call file.read()
 Here's my code.

filePath = C:\\folder\\myFile.txt
fileHandle = open(filePath, 'r').read();
print fileHandle.read()

# This prints nothing when it should print the above values  Thanks
for the help

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Re: read file problem

[Fuzzyman]

Ernesto wrote:
 I'm just want to read in the contents of a (text) file.  The text file
 is filled with semiColon delimited floating point strings...

 0.456;1.265;99.742;...

 For some reason, I can't get the contents back when I call file.read()
  Here's my code.

 filePath = C:\\folder\\myFile.txt
 fileHandle = open(filePath, 'r').read();
 print fileHandle.read()

 # This prints nothing when it should print the above values  Thanks
 for the help

Try adding a 'print fileHandle' in there...

That line should be :

fileHandle = open(filePath, 'r')

The '.read()' part returns the full file... so further reads have no
effect.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

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Re: read file problem

[Rene Pijlman]

Ernesto:
fileHandle = open(filePath, 'r').read();
 
Remove this:

open() returns the filehandle, open().read() returns the data read from
the filehandle.

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Re: read file problem

[Schüle Daniel]

if you want the numbers you can combine it into one-liner

nums = file(rC:\folder\myFile.txt).read().split(;)

the numbers are in string representation in the list
you can no do

nums = [float(num) for num in nums]

Regards, Daniel

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Re: read file problem

[Ernesto]

Thanks to all.

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