Hello all,
Currently I am working on a program that reads text from a text file. I
would like it to place the information int a list and inside the information
would have sublists of information.
The text file looks like this:
"Old Test","2009_10_20"
"Current Test","2009_10_25"
"Future Test","2009_11_01"
I am trying to get the list of lists to look like the following after the
information is read from the text file:
important_dates = [["Old Test","2009_10_20"],["Current
Test",2009_10_25"],["Future Test","2009_11_01"]]
What I currently have is:
def read_important_dates():
print "\nReading text file into program: important.txt"
text_file = open("important.txt", "r")
dates = text_file.readlines()
text_file.close()
print dates
#
read_important_dates()
When it gets to print dates I see the following:
[ ' "Old Test","2009_10_20"\n', ' "Current Test",2009_10_25"\n', ' "Future
Test","2009_11_01" ' ]
Does it look this way because I am using the "print"? Or do I still need to
add the inner [ ] and strip out the \n and '?
If I add brackets to the text file I am reading from my output looks like
this:
['["Old Test","2009_10_20"]\n', '["Current Test",2009_10_25"]\n', '["Future
Test","2009_11_01"]']
The program in which I am reading the information into reads a list of lists
in which I am trying to simulate when reading from the text file mentioned
above.
Which acomplishes the in list's brackets, but still leaves the \n and the '
characters.
I have tried line.strip() to remove the \n and ' characters, but get the
following error:
Reading text file into program: important.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "fileio.py", line 9, in <module>
read_important_dates()
File "fileio.py", line 6, in read_important_dates
line.strip()
NameError: global name 'line' is not defined
If I try the following to split dates into another list called
important_dates I receive a different error:
---------code----------
def read_important_dates():
print "\nReading text file into program: reminders.txt"
text_file = open("important", "r")
dates = text_file.readlines()
text_file.close()
important_dates = dates.split()
print dates
print important_dates
#
read_important_dates()
-------------------------
--------error-----------
Reading text file into program: important.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "fileio.py", line 10, in <module>
read_important_dates()
File "fileio.py", line 6, in read_important_dates
important_dates = dates.split()
NameError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split'
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All help is appreciated,
Thanks in advance,
Katt
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