nested tuples

[Larry Bates]

The first question is why do you need tuples?

But this works:

import csv
filename=r'C:\test.txt'
fp=open(filename,'r')
reader=csv.reader(fp)
tlines=tuple([tuple(x) for x in reader])
fp.close()

Larry Bates

Luis P. Mendes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to solve this problem:
> 
> suppose I'm reading a csv file and want to create a tuple of all those
> rows and values, like ((row1value1, row1value2, row1value3),(row2value1,
> row2value2, row2value3),..., (rowNvalue1, rowNvalue2, rowNvalue3))
> 
> I haven't found the way to do it just using tuples.  How can I do it?
> 
> Nevertheless, I can solve it like this:
> a=[]
> 
> for row in reader:
> ~   elem = (row[0],row[1],row[2])
> ~   a.append(elem)
> 
> which will result in a list of tuples: [(row1value1, row1value2,
> row1value3),(row2value1, row2value2, row2value3),..., (rowNvalue1,
> rowNvalue2, rowNvalue3)]
> 
> Then, I get what I want with tuple(a).
> 
> 
> 
> Luis P. Mendes