How to Convert a Text File into a List in Python

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I m having trouble trying to convert a text file into a list of lists split by commas  Basically  I want   DATE  OF OCCURRENCE WARD LONGITUDE LATITUDE 06 04 2011 3 -87 61619704286184 41 82254380664193 06 04 2011 20 -87 62391924557963 41 79367531770095   to look like      DATE  OF OCCURRENCE    WARD    LONGITUDE     LATITUDE       06 04 2011    3    -87 61619704286184    41 82254380664193       06 04 2011    20    -87 62391924557963    41 79367531770095      Here is the code I have so far    row      crimefile   open fileName   r   for line in crimefile readlines        row append  line       for i in line split               row -1  append i    However  this gets me a result of      DATE  OF OCCURRENCE WARD LONGITUDE LATITUDE n    DATE  OF OCCURRENCE    WARD    LONGITUDE    LATITUDE n       06 04 2011 3 -87 61619704286184 41 82254380664193 n    06 04 2011    3    -87 61619704286184    41 82254380664193 n       06 04 2011 20 -87 62391924557963 41 79367531770095    06 04 2011    20    -87 62391924557963    41 79367531770095      I just want to be able to remove that first part and replace it with the second  How can I do that

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This looks like a CSV file  so you could use the python csv module to read it  For example   import csv  crimefile   open fileName   r   reader   csv reader crimefile  allRows    row for row in reader    Using the csv module allows you to specify how things like quotes and newlines are handled  See the documentation I linked to above

User · Answer

Going with what you ve started   row         crimefile   open fileName   r    for line in crimefile readlines         tmp          for element in line 0 -1  split               tmp append element  row append tmp

User · Answer

Maybe   crimefile   open fileName   r   yourResult    line split      for line in crimefile readlines

[python] How to Convert a Text File into a List in Python

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