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pythonpython-2.7
Scheming
Scheming

Reputation: 1

Read file and store each line as a different variable

I am having trouble storing each line as a separate variable. I understand how to read a file and parse each line but I am having trouble storing them separately.

def setOffsets():
data = urllib2.urlopen("http://blahblahblah.net/file.txt")
for line in data:

The file would contain data like this:

1234
4321
1234

Is there anyway possible to have line 1 stored as x, line 2 stored as y and so on? I looked at other methods and they store the data as lists and arrays which I am simply not interested in. I am only dealing with a few lines.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2308

Answers (1)

user2390182
user2390182

Reputation: 73460

According to the docs, urlopen() returns a file-like object. Hence, methods such as readline() (returns the next line) and readlines() (returns a list of all lines as bytestrings) are available:

x, y, z = data.readlines()  # as pointed out in the comments by @zondo

# equivalent, but more robust if more lines than wanted are present
x = data.readline()
y = data.readline()
z = data.readline()

Upvotes: 1

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