Well, a string "12345" when called through int() will come back as 12345.
But, a string "foo", called through int(), will raise a TypeError.
So....
> import sys
>
> data_file = open('C:/Documents and Settings/nyer/Desktop/nyer.txt', 'r')
> data = data_file.readlines()
>
> def process(list_of_lines):
> data_points = []
> for line in list_of_lines:
> data_points.append(int(line))
> return data_points
>
> print process(data)
You could do this
def process(list_of_lines):
data_points=[]
for line in list_of_lines:
try:
tempLine = int(line)
except TypeError:
print "Non numeric character in line", line
continue #Breaks, and starts with next line
data_points.append(tempLine)
That's one way, but there's probably a better way.
Regards,
Liam Clarke
--
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And with it comes the only basic human duty, to take the consequences.
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