reading floats from file

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Pete" == Pete Shinners <pete at visionart.com> writes:

    Pete> John Hunter wrote:
    >> I have a file of ascii data arranged as a matrix of floats, eg
    >> 0.3125 0.9418 1.2843 0.924516 0.92855 0.3125 0.6593 1.2843
    >> 0.900514 0.900914 0.1667 0.9757 1.5611 0.893318 0.893699 I want
    >> to read this data and process it a line at a time This works:
    >> fh = open(dataDir + 'freqs_and_amps.dat') for line in
    >> fh.readlines(): line = re.sub('^[ ]+', '', line) x = map(float,
    >> re.split('[\r\n\t ]+', line[0:len(line)-1]))


    Pete> strings already have a split() method that will split the
    Pete> string based on whitespace. no need to bring RE into the mix
    Pete> for this.

Thanks for the response.

How about this: is this the best way to print a row of floats to a
file?

    x = (1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0)
    fOut.write( string.join( map( str, x ) ) + '\n' )

Thanks,
John Hunter