On 10/24/07, Dan Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Oct 24, 8:56 pm, "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
>
> Use the csv module.
>
> --
>
The csv module is definitely the way to go here as it knows how to handle
commas within text qualifiers (double quotes). Do something like this:
import csv
reader = csv.reader(open('testfile.txt'))
for ct,row in enumerate(reader):
print "var2=", row[2]
if ct>2:
break
The comma separated list parser in pyparsing is also great for this,
particularly when the input gets dirtier:
http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/commasep.py
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