[Tutor] arrangement of datafile

[Dave Angel]

On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 16:17:27 +0800, Amrita Kumari 
<amrita.g13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried these and here is the code:


> f=open('filename')
> lines=f.readlines()
> new=lines.split()

That line will throw an exception. 

> number=int(new[0])
> mylist=[i.split('=')[0] for i in new]


> one thing I don't understand is why you asked to remove first two
> items from the list? 

You don't show us the data file,  but presumably he would ask that 
because the first two lines held different formats of data. Like your 
number= line was intended to fetch a count from only line zero?


> and is the above code alright?, it can produce
> output like the one you mentioned:
> {1: {'HA2': 3.785, 'HA3': 3.913},
>  2: {'H': 8.85, 'HA': 4.337, 'N': 115.757},

The code above won't produce a dict of dicts. It won't even get past 
the exception.  Please use copy/paste.

-- 
DaveA