On Nov 16, 2007 2:31 PM, Tim Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 16/11/2007, Alexander Harrowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Nov 16, 2007 8:57 AM, Mark Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 2007-11-16, Jeremy Nicoll - pyuk wrote:
> > > > Is there a simple way to read a whole (modest sized, parameter) file of
> > > > lines of tab-separated lines into one Python data-structure?

>
> Like so?
>
> import csv
>
> input = csv.StringIO('Hello, World\tThe Spanish inquisition\tis coming
> to town, tomorrow\t(1,2,3,4)')
> reader = csv.reader(input, delimiter="\t")
>
> for line in reader:
>    print line
>

I was thinking more like ("Data","more data","even more data"),
("data", "data", "yet further data"), ("you", "get", "the", "picture")
to
("Data", "more data", "even more data")
(etc, etc)
(etc)
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