leam hall wrote:
> I'm trying to take input from a file (CSV spreadsheet) and use the first
> line inputs (header) as the names of lists. So far I'm not successful. :)
>
> How do I take line_list[0], the result of "line.split(',')" and use it as
> the name of a list? Does that make sense?
>
No, it doesn't make sense. You're trying to define a variable that has
a name determined not by your source, but by a name in line 0 of the csv
file. How then are you going to use that variable?
There are two possibilities: Either you actually know those names and
are using them in your code, or the names won't be known till runtime.
If the latter, then make a dictionary of lists,
mydict = {}
for item in line_list:
mydict[item] = []
and then populate those lists from each line of the file.
Now, if you're sure you know what the names are to be, then:
names = mydict["name"]
addresses = mydict["address"]
or whatever.
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DaveA
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