Hi Gloom,
You should give a look at the method "split" (of the string objects) and int. The first is used do break a string into smaller pieces and the other to convert a string to an int object, raising an exception when it is not possible. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Gloom Demon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello :-) > > Can someone please explain to me ho can I find out how many elements are > there in one record of a list? > > The problem is as follows: > > I have a txt file from which I read data into Python. > > The file looks something like this: > > 01 bla bla bla 23,15 2345,67 > 02 alb alb 2,4 890,1 > 03 bal bla alb lab 567,12345 87,45 > .... > > I need to be able to discriminate the string parts from the numeric ones. > > Since the number of words in the file can vary, I have to be able to find out > when they are finished > and when the floats come in > > mystring[0]-> always integer > mystring[1]-> string (word) > mystring[1-X]-> last string (word) > mystring[X+1]-> always float > mystring[X+2]-> always float > > it would have been nice if I could find out the total number of the fields > in one list record so that I could then adress them via a variable. > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > -- Ruivaldo Neto
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