Nagarajan wrote:
> On Jul 31, 9:03 am, Gilles Ganault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I'm sure there's a much easier way to read a two-column, CSV file into
>> an array, but I haven't found it in Google.
>>
>> Should I use the Array module instead?
[...snip]
> a = []
> import csv
> reader = csv.reader(open("filename", "r"), delimiter='\t' )
> for row in reader:
> a.append( row )
>
> ----------------------------
> I don't think you can have multidimensional arrays.
> Did you test you program? It did not work for me.
> I think mine would suit your requirements as the output is a list of
> lists.
I am similarly confused as to the nature of the original request, but for
completeness' sake, I went by the same assumption of building a list of lists,
and came up with this (which does not use the csv module). Nagarajan's code is
more concise and just as readable IMO, but here's my take anyway:
a = []
b = []
handle = open(filename, 'r')
for line in handle.xreadlines():
col1,col2 = line.split('\t')
a.append(col1)
b.append(col2)
columns = [a, b]
-Jay
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