On Oct 25, 3:56 am, "Junior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to open a text file for reading and delineate it by comma. I also
> want any data
> surrounded by quotation marks that has a comma in it, not to count the
> commas inside the
> quotation marks
>
> if the file testfile.txt contains the following;
>
> 5,Tuesday,"May is a spring month",Father's Day
> 1,Saturday,"June,July and August",Independance Day
>
> and I write the following program
>
> fname = open('testfile.txt', 'r')
> ct=1
> while ct != 3:
> rd=(fname.readline())
> filedata=rd.split(',')
> print "var2=",filedata[2]
> ct +=1
>
> fname.close
>
> filedata[2] will = "May is a spring month"; on the first pass and
>
> filedata[2] will = "June; on the second pass
>
> How do I get filedata[2] to = "June,July and August" on the second pass
>
> and filedata[3] to = Independance Day
why not using csv?
but u would better put all strings into ""
else u can
r = open('file').read().splitlines()
for i in r:
l1 = i.split(',',2)
l2 = l1.pop().rsplit(',',1)
print l1+l2
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