newbe how to read in a string?

[Steffen Ries]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> "Chris Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at usa.net> wrote in message
> news:mailman.985355670.6600.python-list at python.org...
>     [snip]
> >     import string
> >     seq = string.split(a, ",")
> >     for i in range(1, len(seq)): # this skips the 0 index,
> >         seq[i] = float(seq)      # which needs to stay a string.
> >
> > In Python 2.0 the code might be shorter, using string methods and list
> > comprehension, but I personally prefer the "old way" myself.
> 
> The 'old way' would be
>     seq = map(float, string.split(a, ','))
> and it still works fine of course, though I'd rather spell it
>     seq = map(float, ','.split(a))

You're (ab)using ",".join(seq) too much, it seems :-)

What you wanted to say is: "seq = map(float, a.split(','))" (not
counting the conversion problem of the first element...)

/steffen
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