On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:36 PM, H. S. Rai <hardeep....@gmail.com> wrote: > > What is the easiest way to read data from file. file function mention > of size, I want to read variable wise, like: > > f.read(myInteger1, myFloat1, myString1) > > My data file will be: > 'b' 'breadth of member' 250 > 'D' 'overall depth of member' 550 > > Each line having three entries: <variable name>,<Description>,<Default vaule> > > These may be separated by comma, tab or space. If I am able to read > and have list like: > > varList[ [ 'b', 'breadth of member', 250 ] , [ 'D', 'overall depth of > member', 550 ] ] > > then that will serve my purpose. >
Please send another email with a short example file attached, which is *exactly* like the file you want to read in. I'm sure somebody will respond with a snippet of code to do what you want. The code will likely look like varList = [x.replace(',',' ').split() for x in open('file').readlines()] William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---