[Tutor] Unpacking a Tuple - Can It Be Done with a CSV Line?

[Kalle Svensson]

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Sez Seelinger, Bruce:
> Hello,
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> I am writing a script which opens a file which consists of comma separated
> entries similar to the example below:
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> value1, value2, value3, value4,  etc. etc.

[How to make unpack them to variables?]

import string
s =3D "value1, value2, value3, value4"
var1, var2, var3, var4 =3D map(string.strip, string.split(s, ","))

> I am relatively new to Python and the only other language I have extensive
> programming with is VMS's DCL.

I hope and believe you will find python enjoyable, although I know nothing
about DCL (or VMS).

HTH,
  Kalle
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