将文本文件拆分为列表列表

Question

I'm currently attempting to break a .txt file into a list of lists for easier sorting. However, I can not seem to get my splitting function to work. The Text file will look something like this

First Name        Second Name        Age        Class Room Number        GPA
Louis             Darter             16         1                        3.5
Emma              Handzo             15         1                        3.6
Jing              Luo                25         2                        2.0
Charles           Xavier             13         2                        3.0
Scott             Summer             10         1                        3.1

And here is what im currently attempting to do:

import csv
reader = csv.reader(open('ARCC_Challenge1.txt', 'rb'), delimiter=' ')
split_text = []
for line in reader:
     split_text.append(line[1:-1])

print split_text

Ideally, I'd like to get the output in a format that looks something like [[First Name 1, Last Name 1, Age 1, class room number 1, GPA 1],[First Name 2, Last Name 2, Age 2, class room number 2, GPA 2]...] Mycurrent code produces an array, but its full of blank spots and many values seem to have \\t attached to them. Any ideas that you might be able to give me to accomplish this goal?

Answer 1

I'm guessing your file is tab delimited, not space delimited? Try the following:

import csv

with open('ARCC_Challenge1.txt', 'rb') as fin:
    csvin = csv.reader(fin, delimiter='\t') #\t = tab delimited
    next(csvin, '') # skip header
    split_text = list(csvin)

Answer 2

print map(str.split,open('ARCC_Challenge1.txt', 'rb'))

I think should basically do what you want

you may need to call list on the result depending on the version of python

alternatively if you are more of a list comprehension guy

print [line.split() for line in open('ARCC_Challenge1.txt', 'rb')]

you save your lines instead of printing them

lines = ...
#then you can skip some with normal slices
print lines[3:]