[Tutor] Importing data from a file.

[Shall, Sydney]

On 21/03/2013 13:54, Amit Saha wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Shall, Sydney <sydney.shall at kcl.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I have an elementary question provoked by another post today.
>>
>> 1. Is it the case that ALL imported data from a file is a string?
>> 2. Does this therefor imply that said data has to be processed appropriately
>> to generate the data in the form required by the program?
> To the best of my knowledge, yes to both of your queries. Once you
> have the element you want to process, you can make use of the type
> converting functions (int(), float().. ) and use them appropriately.
>
>> 3. Are there defined procedures for doing the required processing?
> If you meant conversion functions, int() and float() are examples of
> those. You of course  (most of the times) have to make use of string
> manipulation functions (strip(), rstrip(), etc) to extract the exact
> data item you might be looking for. So, they would be the building
> blocks for your processing functions.
>
> I hope that makes some things clear.
>
> -Amit.
>
Yes, Thanks. This is now quite clear.
Sydney

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