[Tutor] Coma separated instead TAB separated

[Alan Gauld]

On 08/06/14 19:56, Mario Py wrote:
> Hi everyone, this is very basic/beginner question.

Hi,

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> I'm reading TXT file, two words per line that are separated by TAB:
>
> question, rightAnswer = line.strip().split('\t')
>
> I would like to use TXT file that it would be separated by coma.
> How do I change that line of code?

You should probably use the csv module instead, it is designed for 
reading comma separated files (or tab or any other character).
But if you really do only have two fields and you know they won't have 
commas within them then you can do it with split()...

> I tried these two versions but it is not working:
>
> question, rightAnswer = line.strip().split('\c')    # c for coma?
> question, rightAnswer = line.strip().split('\,')    # , for coma?

Since comma is not a special character you don't need the escape(\) 
character. So your line should just be:

question, rightAnswer = line.strip().split(',')

HTH
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