Reading data from file: x(i),y(i) form

[Robert Brewer]

Satish Chimakurthi wrote:

> I have data of the following form
> 
>   1.00000000000000        0.00000000000000D+000
>   0.959753969508636       0.280842158538236
>   0.842255363975169       0.539078752924891
>   0.656961888321583       0.753923787456623
>   0.418788196289889       0.908083942512068
>   0.146905379223583       0.989150549489397
> 
> My aim is to read the data into x(i), y(i) where
> i=1,6, and I wrote the following code for the purpose.

Try this:

ifile4=open('fluid.dat','r') 
points = []
for i, line in enumerate(ifile4.readlines()):
        points.append(map(float,line.replace('D','E').split()))
        if i==7:
           break

print points


Robert Brewer
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