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Samir-16 wrote: > > > > 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. > Simply use split(). I appended these lines at the end of your piece of code, >>> y = x[0].split(',') >>> y ['"aaa"', '"bbb"', '"ccc"'] >>> len(y) 3 the reason for extra quotes is due to the fact that string is "aaa" and not aaa and strings are encapsulated with "" and hence the extra quote.
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