how to read a tab delimited file

[jrlen balane]

how would i read a tab delimited file? at the same time put what i
read in an array, say for example that i know that the file is an
array with column= 5 and row=unknown.

 

[Peter Hansen]

how would i read a tab delimited file? at the same time put what i
read in an array, say for example that i know that the file is an
array with column= 5 and row=unknown.

Use the "csv" module. Although that stands for "comma
separated values", it readily supports alternative
delimiters such as TAB.

-Peter

 

[jrlen balane]

if i am going to do this, how should i continue:
how would i know the end of file?


table_data = open(filename, 'r')
table_data.readlines()

 

[Steven Bethard]

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jrlen balane top-posted:

if i am going to do this, how should i continue:
how would i know the end of file?

Look at the examples in the docs:

http://docs.python.org/lib/node617.html

STeVe