On Mar 24, 10:46 am, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: > On 03/24/2013 01:20 AM, Jiewei Huang wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > There are at least 3 differences to the printouts. Which difference are > you concerned with? > > 1) Moon --> Silly > 2) square and round brackets in slightly different places > 3) row 0 suppressed > > Explain which one, or specify a fourth, and also what you have tried to > address the question. > > -- > DaveA
Besides does it work as you are describing? ie your input appears to be tab delimited, whereas the default is ',' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list