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> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:07:22 -0400
> From: "S Python" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Tutor] Reading List from File
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am trying to read a comma-delimitted list ("aaa","bbb","ccc") from a
> text
> file and assign those values to a list, x, such that:
>
> x = ["aaa", "bbb", "ccc"]
>
> The code that I have come up with looks like this:
>
> >>> x = []
> >>> f = open(r'c:\test.txt', 'r')
> >>> x.extend(f.readlines())
> >>> x
> ['"aaa","bbb","ccc"']
>
> If you look closely, there is an extra pair of single quotes (') that
> encapsulates the string. Therefore, len(x) returns 1, instead of 3.
> Is
> there a function to "separate" this list out? I hope my question
> makes
> sense.
I think you are better off using the csv module. If you have a comma
separated file you could...
import csv
reader = csv.reader(open("some.csv", "rb"))
for row in reader:
print row
I yanked this straight out of the Python Reference Library :)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Samir
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