[Tutor] Reading List from File

[Brett Wilkins]

This is what I'd use...
But it'd also be rather easy with regex...
Oh well.

Here:

 >>> f = open('intext', 'r')
 >>> foo = f.readline().strip().replace('"','').split(',')
 >>> foo
['aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc']


Cheers

On 1/08/2008, at 1:49 AM, amingv at gmail.com wrote:

> If your list is in the format:
> aaa,bbb,ccc
>
> You can use
> foo = in_file.readline.split(',')
>
> --
> Amin Rainmaker
> From: "S Python" <spython01 at gmail.com>
> Date: 1 August 2008 1:07:22 AM
> To: tutor at python.org
> Subject: [Tutor] Reading List from File
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am trying to read a comma-delimitted list ("aaa","bbb","ccc") from  
> a text file and assign those values to a list, x, such that:
>
> x = ["aaa", "bbb", "ccc"]
>
> The code that I have come up with looks like this:
>
> >>> x = []
> >>> f = open(r'c:\test.txt', 'r')
> >>> x.extend(f.readlines())
> >>> x
> ['"aaa","bbb","ccc"']
>
> If you look closely, there is an extra pair of single quotes (')  
> that encapsulates the string.  Therefore, len(x) returns 1, instead  
> of 3.  Is there a function to "separate" this list out?  I hope my  
> question makes sense.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Samir
>
>
>
>
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