CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
user8496852
user8496852

Reputation:

How to parse a file for words

For each word in a txt file, I want to set x as the first word in the file and y as the second. I tried this for loop but am unsure what I need to put in the < >.

My file has two lines with each word on a newline.

for word in file:
    x = <the first word>
    y = <the second word>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 42

Answers (3)

aiven
aiven

Reputation: 4313

with open('path/to/file.txt') as file:
  x, y = [line.strip() for line in file]

Upvotes: 1

emi
emi

Reputation: 3070

Read line by line and decide which is what with an extra variable. This method is good for very large files, because it does not needs to load the entire file into memory:

with open('workfile') as f:
    is_x = True
    for word in file:
        if is_x:
           x = word
        else:
           y = word

           do_things_on_x_and_y(x, y)

        is_x = not is_x

Upvotes: 0

Omar Einea
Omar Einea

Reputation: 2524

My file has two lines with each word on a newline.

If it only has two lines then you could do this (no loop required):

x, y = file.read().splitlines()

Upvotes: 0

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