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basketball5
basketball5

Reputation: 23

Take a file name and read the contents of that file into 2 lists

I have defined 2 lists and I want to read the contents of a text file into the 2 lists shown below. I can't work out how to structure the code so that the names and numbers from the text file are called into the lists?

def read_file(filename, player_names, player_scores):

    infile = open("high_scores.txt", "r")

    infile.close()

defined lists 

player_names = ["","","","",""]
player_scores = [0,0,0,0,0]
print('Player_names',player_names)
print('Player_scores',player_scores)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 218

Answers (1)

Serjik
Serjik

Reputation: 10931

Consider your input file is a tab delimited of players and scores

player1 100

player2 50

player3 65

your working code will be

def read_file(filename, player_names, player_scores):
    with open(filename, "r") as infile:
        for line in infile:
            player_score = line.split('\t')
            player_names.append(player_score[0])
            player_scores.append(int(player_score[1]))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    player_names = []
    player_scores = []
    read_file('high_scores.txt', player_names, player_scores)
    print('Player_names',player_names)
    print('Player_scores',player_scores)

and this will be your output:

('Player_names', ['player1', 'player2', 'player3'])

('Player_scores', [100, 50, 65])

Upvotes: 1

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