The built-in csv module is good for this. You can specify the
delimiter (ie: tabs instead of commas) and it handles a bunch of edge
cases (like quoted values containing the delimiter) that makes it a
better solution than string.split('\t').
Cheers
CM
On 16 Nov 2007, at 19:29, 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?
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