On Mar 25, 11:52 am, Jiewei Huang <jiewe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, March 24, 2013 9:10:45 PM UTC+10, ypsun wrote: > > Jiewei Huang於 2013年3月24日星期日UTC+1上午6時20分29秒寫道: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Currently create a simple text-based database of information about people > > > > I have a csv file which consist of 3 rows , row 1 2 and 3 is as such: > > > > Name Address Telephone Birthday > > > > John Konon Ministry of Moon Walks 4567882 27-Feb > > > > Stacy Kisha Ministry of Man Power 1234567 17-Jan > > > > My codes are : > > > > import csv > > > > original = file('friends.csv', 'rU') > > > > reader = csv.reader(original) > > > > for row in reader: > > > > print row > > > > and the output is : > > > > ['Name', ' Address', 'Telephone', 'Birthday'] > > > > ['John Konon', 'Ministry of Moon Walks', '4567882', '27-Feb'] > > > > ['Stacy Kisha', 'Ministry of Man Power', '1234567', '17-Jan'] > > > > But i wanted to make it > > > > [('John Cleese', 'Ministry of Silly Walks', '5555421', '27-Feb'), > > > > ( 'Stacy Kisha', 'Ministry of Man Power', '1234567', 17-Jan')] > > > > can someone show me guidance to this issue > > > > Thanks all > > > import csv > > > original = file('friends.csv', 'rU') > > > reader = csv.reader(original) > > > print [tuple(row) for row in reader][1:] > > > is this you want? > > > Note that: > > > 1) I assume your csv file content are seperated by comma > > > 2) this way allocates your memory, will be a trouble when a big table :P > > Hi guys, i got into another situation i was told not to use csv library and > currently my code is : > > f = open('friends.csv', 'rU') > for row in f: > > print [row for (row) in f] > > output : > ['John Cleese,Ministry of Silly Walks,5555421,27-Oct\n', 'Stacy > Kisha,Ministry of Man Power,1234567,17-Jan\n'] > > i need it to become : > [('John Cleese', 'Ministry of Silly Walks', '5555421', '27-Oct'), ('Stacy > Kisha', 'Ministry of Man Power', '1234567', '17-Jan')] > > guide me please
Have you tried the split (and perhaps strip) methods from http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list