Separate Rows in reader

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Mon Mar 25 23:48:10 EDT 2013


On 26/03/2013 03:33, Jiewei Huang wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:40:51 AM UTC+10, Dave Angel wrote:
>> On 03/25/2013 09:05 PM, Jiewei Huang wrote:
>>> On Monday, March 25, 2013 11:51:51 PM UTC+10, rusi wrote:
>>
>> If you insist on using GoogleGroups, then make sure you keep your quotes
>> small.  I'm about to stop reading messages that are double-spaced by
>> buggy software.
>>
>> >>> <SNIP>
>> >> Have you tried the split (and perhaps strip) methods from
>> >>
>> >> http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods
>> >>
>> >> ?
>>
>> You got lots of specific advice from your previous thread.  So which
>> version did you end up using?  It'd make a good starting place for this
>> "problem."
>>
>> > can show me one line of how to implement it base on my problem?
>> >
>>
>> As long as the input data is constrained not to have any embedded
>> commas, just use:
>>
>>      mylist = line.split(",")
>>
>> instead of print, send your output to a list.  Then for each line in the
>> list, fix the bracket problem to your strange specs.
>>
>>      outline = outline.replace("[", "(")
>
> Hi Dave thanks for the tips,
>
> I manage to code this:
> f = open('Book1.csv', 'rU')
> for row in f:
>      print zip([row for (row) in f])
>
> however my output is
> [('John Konon Ministry of Moon Walks 4567882 27-Feb\n',), ('Stacy Kisha Ministry of Man Power 1234567 17-Jan\n',)]
>
> is there any method to remove the \n ?
>
Use the .rstrip method:

     print zip(row.rstrip('\n') for row in f)




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