Re: Reading a two-column file into an array?

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:57:17 -0700, Nagarajan wrote:

a = []
import csv
reader = csv.reader(open("filename", "r"), delimiter='\t' )
for row in reader:
a.append( row )

I would keep a reference to the file to close it properly and the loop can
be replaced by a call to `list()`:

import csv

def main():
data_file = open('filename', 'rb')
a = list(csv.reader(data_file, delimiter='\t'))
data_file.close()

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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