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Reading floats and ints from csv-like file
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Reading floats and ints from csv-like file
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Puh, when the whole thing is so undefined, thats not easy to solve correctly.

I have the absolute brute-force method for it:

import string


def filter_text(text, allowed=string.digits + '.,'):
    return ''.join(filter(lambda c: c in allowed, text))

def process_line(line):
    return list(map(float, filter_text(line).split(',')))
    
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    with open('test.csv', errors='replace') as fd:
        for line in fd:
            print(process_line(line))
Test this against your data. With this code it is even possible to parse data, when normal chars are between the numbers.
You should call it brute_fore_reader.py
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RE: Reading floats and ints from csv-like file - by DeaD_EyE - Sep-05-2017, 02:00 PM

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