On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:

To get a list of the concatenated values for column 0, 1, 2... how about:

---

column_values = list()
for col in range(3):      # or whatever
   column_values.append(' '.join([row[col] for row in reader]))

If you have a very large amount of data, it might be worth the extra time to
do it in one pass... but the above might be good enough for the task at
hand.

Dylan,

  Thanks. I'll give this some thought. My initial idea was to read each line
into a separate list, then extract items from each list in sequence and
write them out as a row in the output file. Because the first two rows of
the input file lack values in the first column the indexing would not be
simple, but could be figured out by trial-and-error.

Rich
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