Best way is to try it out :-) If you've set it to tab-delimited, then commas are surely not an issue. If you've created a csv with stringified tuples, the tuple entries look like
...,"(1,2,3)",.... and so the csv module, using a comma delimiter, is not confused by the "tuple" commas. Tim Dr Tim Couper CTO, SciVisum Ltd www.scivisum.com Alexander Harrowell 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? >>> >> I think the csv module can do this. (Despite its name it can handle any >> delimiter you give it.) >> > > Can it also handle the situation where you have a gaggle of tuples > separated by commas? I.e. does it disregard commas nested within > brackets? > > >> -- >> Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd., www.qtrac.eu >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> >> > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
