[Tutor] reading files

[Mark Lawrence]

On 29/01/2014 14:50, Gabriele Brambilla wrote:
> thanks to everyone, I've used David's method.
>
> Gabriele
>
> 2014-01-29 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
> <mailto:breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>>
>
>     On 29/01/2014 02:09, Gabriele Brambilla wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>         how could I read float numbers if the data format is like this
>         (using
>         readline):
>
>         1.05519999999995        1.26758123387023        -0.314470329249235
>         -0.293015360064208      6.15795761907822        1.92919102133526
>         13.0780459630378        2.15175351758512e6
>
>         the numbers aren't equally spaced and they had not the same
>         number of
>         figures...
>
>         thanks
>
>         Gabriele
>
>
>     Something like this, untested:-
>
>     floats = []
>     with open('myfile') as infile:
>          for line in infile:
>              floats.extend(float(f) for f in line.split())
>
>     --
>     My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
>     what you can do for our language.
>
>     Mark Lawrence
>

Please don't top post.

FTR what is David's method and who is David?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence