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

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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()

That's what 2.5's with statement is all about...:

from __future__ import with_statement

def main():
with open('filename', 'rb') as f:
return list(csv.reader(f, delimiter='\t'))


Alex
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