Newbie Question

[Tom Strickland]

I have a file that contains many lines, each of which consists of a string
of comma-separated variables, mostly floats but some strings. Each line
looks like an obvious tuple to me. How do I save each line of this file as a
tuple rather than a string? Or, is that the right way to go?

Thank you.

Tom Strickland

 

[Gabriel Cooper]

look into the csv module. (for comma-separated-value text files.)

 

[Sion Arrowsmith]

I have a file that contains many lines, each of which consists of a string
of comma-separated variables, mostly floats but some strings. Each line
looks like an obvious tuple to me. How do I save each line of this file as a
tuple rather than a string? Or, is that the right way to go?

Depending on exactly what format you've got, either .split(',') on
the line, or if this is insufficient look at the csv module. You'll
then need some way of turning the list of strings both of these
will give you into the mixed float/string tuple you want, which
could be somewhat tedious. Without knowing what these lines look
like, or what they represent, I can't begin to guess how you might
go about it. Actually, I can -- I'd start by considering whether a
dict might be more appropriate than a tuple and use csv.DictReader.