Python：使用'|'解析文本文件 到MySql表

Question

I have a text file which has the following structure:

341|18 Hello world|20090225230048AAnhStI|90|$0.30|10|289|2|2|2|Is that foo or 
boo bar?  18 |Is it boo foo and foo bar?|    |I beleive its foo.|396545163|foo 
& bar>foo & boo

Basically each data element is separated by | . I am planning on using a Python script to parse this data and write it to a table. Based on the information I gathered from internet I can't take advantage of Python's tab separated or comma separated options to import such a file into a MySql data base.

• Am I wrong?
• If so, what would be the best option for doing such a thing?

My idea is to create a table and extract only the element that I want to extract from the above string to store it in each column. But, I also would like to know how to track what to extract. Do I use a counter while I iterating over each element..?

I thought I'd ask these question before I proceed.

My current intuition is to do the following:

import sys

file = open('datafile.txt')
for line in file:
    print line.strip().split('|') 

Answer 1

Your current code is fine. You can also use the csv.reader :

import csv
with open('datafile.txt', 'rb') as f:
    for row in csv.reader(f, delimiter='|'):
        ...