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Roshin Raphel
Roshin Raphel

Reputation: 2709

Unable to properly read the lines from a file

I have file, which i wrote using a python script. The file is large and contain more than a 1000 lines, and each line is very large and it goes like :(shortened)

1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
  1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
  1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
2 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
  1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
  1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
3 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
  1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
...

And see, each line could take the space of 3 lines while displaying it in the monitor.
When I try :

fp = open('data.txt','r')
c = 0
for line in fp:
    c += 1
print("No. of line = ",c)

I get the correct value, and when I use the read() function, I get a different value, as in:

fp = open('data.txt','r')
c = 0
data = fp.read()
for line in data:
    c += 1
print("No. of line = ",c)

Can somebody explain, what is the difference between using the read() function, and not using it ?

Thanks in advance...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 121

Answers (1)

furas
furas

Reputation: 143197

Using 

data = fp.read()
for line in data:
    c += 1

you read all in one string and for-loop treats this string as list of chars - so you count chars.

You have to use readlines() to get list of lines and count lines in this list

data = fp.readlines()
for line in data:
    c += 1

BTW: The same result to count chars

data = fp.read()
c = len(data)

and to count lines

data = fp.readlines()
c = len(data)

BTW: You could also use print() to see what you have in variable

data = fp.read()
print(data[0])
print(data[:3])
print(data)

and

data = fp.readlines()
print(data[0])
print(data[:3])
print(data)

If you want to test in the one script then you have to close and open fail again or use fp.seek(0) to move to beginning of file before you read again.

To works with lines you should use 

fp = open('data.txt','r')

for line in fp:
    # ...code ...

fp.close()

or 

fp = open('data.txt','r')
all_lines = fp.readlines()

for line in all_lines:
    # ...code ...

fp.close()

The same with with ... as ... 

with open('data.txt','r') as fp:
    for line in fp:
        # ...code ...

or 

with open('data.txt','r') as fp:
    all_lines = fp.readlines()
    for line in all_lines:
        # ...code ...

Upvotes: 2

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