[Tutor] Expanding a Python script to include a zcat and awk pre-process
Kent Johnson
kent37 at tds.net
Fri Jan 8 15:20:47 CET 2010
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:24 AM, <galaxywatcher at gmail.com> wrote:
> So how do I
> uncompress zip and gzipped files in Python,
zipfile and gzip
> and how do I force split to only
> evaluate the first two columns?
Use the optional second argument to split():
line.split(',', 2)
> Better yet, can I tell split to not evaluate
> commas in the double quoted 3rd column?
Use the csv module.
Kent
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