On May 16, 4:21 pm, Lisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am reading in data from a text file. I want to enter each value on
> the line into a list and retain the order of the elements. The number
> of elements and spacing between them varies, but a typical line looks
> like:
>
> ' SRCPARAM 1 6.35e-07 15.00 340.00 1.10 3.0 '
>
> Why does the following not work:
>
> line = ' SRCPARAM 1 6.35e-07 15.00 340.00 1.10 3.0 '
> li = line.split(' ')
> for j,i in enumerate(li):
> if i == '':
> li.remove(i)
>
[snip]
What you're forgetting is that when you remove an item from a list all
the following items move down.
If you try this:
li = list('abc')
for i, j in enumerate(li):
print ", ".join("li[%d] is '%s'" % (p, q) for p, q in
enumerate(li))
print "Testing li[%d], which is '%s'" % (i, j)
if j == 'a':
print "Removing '%s' from li" % j
li.remove(j)
then you'll get:
li[0] is 'a', li[1] is 'b', li[2] is 'c'
Testing li[0], which is 'a'
Removing 'a' from li
li[0] is 'b', li[1] is 'c'
Testing li[1], which is 'c'
You can see that when 'enumerate' yielded li[0] 'b' was in li[1] and
when it yielded li[1] 'b' was in li[1]; it never saw 'b' because 'b'
moved!
Oops! Been there, done that... :-)
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