file operations.

[aditya shukla]

Guys thanks for your previous help .I have a doubt again

My text file is :-

0\9\10\11|0.50|c:\windows\apppatch/AcLayers.dll
0\9\10\11|0.50|c:\windows\apppatch/AcRedir.dll
0\9\10|0.66|c:\windows\apppatch/AcSpecfc.dll
0\9|0.83|c:\windows\apppatch/iebrshim.dll
0|0.92|c:\windows\apppatch/pcamain.sdb
0|0.92|c:\windows\apppatch/sysmain.sdb
0|0.93|c:\windows\apppatch/AcXtrnal.dll
0|0.97|c:\windows\apppatch/msimain.sdb
0|0.98|c:\windows\apppatch/AcRes.dll
0|0.98|c:\windows\apppatch/drvmain.sdb
0|0.98|c:\windows\apppatch/en-US/AcRes.dll.mui
0|0.99|c:\windows\apppatch/apihex86.dll
0|1.00|c:\windows\apppatch/AcGenral.dll


now this is what happens

>>> x=open("c:\\test2.txt","rb")
>>> x.readline()

'\n' ---? i am not able to understand why  is  new line character returned
here

>>> l =x.readline()
>>> print l


Also , because of this i am not able to extract the floating point values ie
0.50,0.50,0.66 respectively
cause when i use the proposed solution given earlier

data=[]
for line in x:
   line=line.split("|")
   data.append(float(line[-2])) --> i am trying to get the floating point
values from the back

i receive this error message

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#71>", line 3, in <module>
    d.append(float(line[-2]))
IndexError: list index out of range

Whereas the solution works well with the dummy  text file which i have
created  which is a.txt

jd|fj|dnv|jd|0.33|c:\\windows\\win32
shcbsbs|nscsjsj|0.93|hsbcjsnc

x=open("a.txt","r")
data=[]
for line in x:
   line=line.split("|")
   data.append(float(line[-2]))


print data

0.3300002,0.9300006

Please help me fix this problem

Thanks in advance

Aditya
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