Reading from a file and converting it into a list of lines

[Girish Sahani]

> On 6/06/2006 4:15 PM, Girish Sahani wrote:
>> Really sorry for that indentation thing :)
>> I tried out the code you have given, and also the one sreeram had
>> written.
>> In all of these,i get the same error of this type:
>> Error i get in Sreeram's code is:
>> n1,_,n2,_ = line.split(',')
>> ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
>>
>> And error i get in your code is:
>> for n1, a1, n2, a2 in reader:
>> ValueError: need more than 0 values to unpack
>>
>> Any ideas why this is happening?
>
> In the case of my code, this is consistent with the line being empty,
> probably the last line. As my mentor Bruno D. would say, your test data
> does not match your spec :-) Which do you want to change, the spec or
> the data?
Thanks John, i just changed my Data file so as not to contain any empty
lines, i guess that was the easier solution ;)
>
> You can change my csv-reading code to detect dodgy data like this (for
> example):
>
> for row in reader:
>      if not row:
>          continue # ignore empty lines, wherever they appear
>      if len(row) != 4:
>          raise ValueError("Malformed row %r" % row)
>      n1, a1, n2, a2 = row
>
> In the case of Sreeram's code, perhaps you could try inserting
>      print "line = ", repr(line)
> before the statement that is causing the error.
>
>
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> girish
>>
>>
>>
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