Separate Rows in reader
Jiewei Huang
jiewei24 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 25 21:05:12 EDT 2013
On Monday, March 25, 2013 11:51:51 PM UTC+10, rusi wrote:
> On Mar 25, 11:52 am, Jiewei Huang <jiewe... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sunday, March 24, 2013 9:10:45 PM UTC+10, ypsun wrote:
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> > > Jiewei Huang於 2013年3月24日星期日UTC+1上午6時20分29秒寫道:
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> > > > Hi all,
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> > > > Currently create a simple text-based database of information about people
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> > > > I have a csv file which consist of 3 rows , row 1 2 and 3 is as such:
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> > > > Name Address Telephone Birthday
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> > > > John Konon Ministry of Moon Walks 4567882 27-Feb
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> > > > Stacy Kisha Ministry of Man Power 1234567 17-Jan
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> > > > My codes are :
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> > > > import csv
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> > > > original = file('friends.csv', 'rU')
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> > > > reader = csv.reader(original)
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> > > > for row in reader:
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> > > > print row
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> > > > and the output is :
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> > > > ['Name', ' Address', 'Telephone', 'Birthday']
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> > > > ['John Konon', 'Ministry of Moon Walks', '4567882', '27-Feb']
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> > > > ['Stacy Kisha', 'Ministry of Man Power', '1234567', '17-Jan']
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> > > > But i wanted to make it
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> > > > [('John Cleese', 'Ministry of Silly Walks', '5555421', '27-Feb'),
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> > > > ( 'Stacy Kisha', 'Ministry of Man Power', '1234567', 17-Jan')]
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> > > > can someone show me guidance to this issue
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> > > > Thanks all
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> > > import csv
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> > > original = file('friends.csv', 'rU')
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> > > reader = csv.reader(original)
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> > > print [tuple(row) for row in reader][1:]
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> > > is this you want?
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> > > Note that:
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> > > 1) I assume your csv file content are seperated by comma
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> > > 2) this way allocates your memory, will be a trouble when a big table :P
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> > Hi guys, i got into another situation i was told not to use csv library and currently my code is :
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> > f = open('friends.csv', 'rU')
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> > for row in f:
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> > print [row for (row) in f]
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> > output :
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> > ['John Cleese,Ministry of Silly Walks,5555421,27-Oct\n', 'Stacy Kisha,Ministry of Man Power,1234567,17-Jan\n']
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> > i need it to become :
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> > [('John Cleese', 'Ministry of Silly Walks', '5555421', '27-Oct'), ('Stacy Kisha', 'Ministry of Man Power', '1234567', '17-Jan')]
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> > guide me please
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> Have you tried the split (and perhaps strip) methods from
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> http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods
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> ?
can show me one line of how to implement it base on my problem?
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