Brian van den Broek wrote:
Since you files are quite short, I'd do something like:
<code> data_file = open(thedata.txt, 'r') # note -- 'r' not r data = data_file.readlines() # returns a list of lines
def process(list_of_lines): data_points = [] for line in list_of_lines: data_points.append(int(line)) return data_points
process(data)
This can be done much more simply with a list comprehension using Python's ability to iterate an open file directly:
data_file = open('thedata.txt', 'r') # note -- 'thedata.txt' not thedata.txt :-)
Gah! :-[ Outsmarting myself in public again. (At least I'm good at something :-) )
data_points = [ int(line) for line in data_file ]>
then process the data with something like for val in data_points: # do something with val time.sleep(300)
Alternately (and my preference) the processing could be done in the read loop like this:
data_file = open('thedata.txt', 'r')
for line in data_file:
val = int(line)
# do something with val
time.sleep(300)
Kent
I do get that for the minimal logic I posted, this way is much simpler. But, isn't my way with a separate function more easily extended? (To deal with cases where there is more than just ints on lines, or where the data needs to be similarly processed multiple times, etc.)
I do feel a YAGNI coming on, though :-)
Anyway, thanks for improving my attempt to help.
Best,
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