I would like to read this file as a record.
I can do this in perl by defining a record seperator;
is there an equivalent in python?
Depending on your exact use case, you may also get some mileage out of using the csv module with a custom delimeter.
Py> from csv import reader Py> parsed = reader(demo, delimiter='|') Py> for line in parsed: print line ... ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'] ['1', '2', '3', '4']
Cheers, Nick.
P.S. 'demo' was created via: Py> from tempfile import TemporaryFile Py> demo = TemporaryFile() Py> demo.write(txt) Py> demo.seek(0) Py> demo.read() 'a|b|c|d\n1|2|3|4' Py> demo.seek(0)
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