[Tutor] assigning types(?) to list elements

[François Granger]

on 14/10/02 14:08, Joseph Paish at jpaish@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:

> file_handle = open ('/path/to/datafile.txt', 'r')
>   
> for each_line in file_handle.readlines() :
>       each_line = each_line.rstrip() # strip off carriage return
>       temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, temp5, temp6 = string.split(each_line)
>       temp2  = float(temp2)
>       temp3  = int(temp3)
>       temp4  = int(temp4)
>       temp5 = float(temp5)
>       temp6 = float(temp6)

This seems to do what you want:

typeslist = [str,float,int,int,float,float]

test = 'abc 123.45 74 98 234.56 345.67'
temp = test.split()
# a sample record is : 'abc 123.45 74 98 234.56 345.67'
result = []
for i in range(len(temp)):
    result.append(typeslist[i](temp[i]))
pass
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