String Fomat Conversion

[Stephen Thorne]

On 26 Jan 2005 20:53:02 -0800, mcg <mgarrett at garrett-technologies.com> wrote:
> Investigating python day 1:
> 
> Data in file:
> x   y
> 1   2
> 3   4
> 5   6
> 
> Want to read file into an array of pairs.
> 
> in c: scanf("%d %d",&x,&y)---store x y in array, loop.
> 
> How do I do this in python??
> In the actual application, the pairs are floating pt i.e. -1.003

f = file('input', 'r')
labels = f.readline() # consume the first line of the file.

Easy Option:
for line in f.readlines():
  x, y = line.split()
  x = float(x)
  y = float(y)

Or, more concisely:
for line in f.readlines():
  x, y = map(float, line.split())

Regards,
Stephen Thorne