[Tutor] reading files

[Mark Lawrence]

On 29/01/2014 02:09, Gabriele Brambilla wrote:
> Hi,
> 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
> 13.0780459630378        2.15175351758512e6
>
> the numbers aren't equally spaced and they had not the same number of
> figures...
>
> thanks
>
> Gabriele
>

Something like this, untested:-

floats = []
with open('myfile') as infile:
     for line in infile:
         floats.extend(float(f) for f in line.split())

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