[Tutor] Extract Names from string

[David Rock]

* Stephen P. Molnar <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net> [2021-08-03 10:52]:
> I appreciate your answer, but I'm afraid that I was not clear in what I want
> to do.
> 
> I read the list of names using:
> 
> f = open('Ligand.list_1.csv', 'r') # 'r' = read
> lines = f.read()
> print(lines),
> f.close()
> 
> Which results in lines str 116:
> 
>  "CaffeicAcid","Cannflavin-A","Cannflavin-B","Cannflavin-C","Diosmetin","Echinacoside","Hesperetin","L-CichoricAcid"
> 
> My problem is that I want to iteratively extract each name which I need for
> an inner loop which out carries out the next calculation in my computational
> pipeline.

As already mentioned, look into the CSV module.  After all, you are already reading from a CSV file, so you might as well leverage the tools available in it to parse the line.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html

It will also help if you are dealing with a file that has multiple lines later on.

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David Rock
david at graniteweb.com