[Tutor] reading files

[Alan Gauld]

On 29/01/14 02:09, Gabriele Brambilla wrote:
> how could I read float numbers if the data format is like this (using
> readline):
>
> 1.05519999999995        1.26758123387023        -0.314470329249235
> -0.293015360064208      6.15795761907822        1.92919102133526


> the numbers aren't equally spaced and they had not the same number of
> figures...

Just read the lines as strings and use str.split() to split them on 
whitespace. You will wind up with a list of numeric strings that
can be converted using float()

If you need more info just ask about the specific issue you get
stuck on (reading, splitting, converting etc).

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