[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 50, Issue 9

[Gloom Demon]

Hello :-)

Can someone please explain to me ho can I find out how many elements are
there in one record of a list?

The problem is as follows:

I have a txt file from which I read data into Python.

The file looks something like this:

01 bla bla bla 23,15 2345,67
02 alb alb 2,4 890,1
03 bal bla alb lab 567,12345 87,45
....

I need to be able to discriminate the string parts from the numeric ones.
Since the number of words in the file can vary, I have to be able to
find out when they are finished
and when the floats come in

mystring[0]-> always integer
mystring[1]-> string (word)
mystring[1-X]-> last string (word)
mystring[X+1]-> always float
mystring[X+2]-> always float

it would have been nice if I could find out the total number of the fields
in one list record so that I could then adress them via a variable.
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