Easy question

[Kalle Svensson]

Sez Brian Quinlan:
> How about something like this:
> 
> # No testing, of course
> myList = []
> file = open( 'testfile', 'r' )
> 
> for i in file.readlines( ):
> 	myList.append( [int(j.strip( )) for j in i.split('\t')] )

The j.strip() is unnecessary, int() does that automagically, IIRC.

Also, this will blow up if there is a tab at the end of the line:

>>> i = "1\t1\t0\t0\t"
>>> [int(j.strip( )) for j in i.split('\t')]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 
>>> 

I would change the list comprehension to

[int(j) for j in i.split()]
or
[int(j) for j in i.strip().split('\t')]

and perhaps add an
if i.strip():
to check for empty lines.

Otherwise, this is how I would do it too.

Peace,
  Kalle
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