Few observations.
1) Don't concatenate pathnames yourself use os.path.join, that
makes your code portable.
lexi_file = open(os.path.join(sys.path[0],"lexi",files), "r")
2) Start with an empty list and append your "lines" lists:
files_and_lines=[]
filenumber = 0
for files in file_names:
fpath=os.path.join(sys.path[0]),"lexi", files)
try:
lexi_file = open(fpath, "r")
files_and_lines.append(lexi_file.readlines())
except(IOError):
print "Something went wrong trying to read the file:"
print "'%s'" % fpath
lexi_file.close() # Remember to close each file
Now you have:
files_and_lines[0][0] -> Line 1 of the first file
files_and_lines[0][1] -> Line 2 of the first file
..
..
..
files_and_lines[0][n] -> Line n of the first file
files_and_lines[1][0] -> Line 1 of the second file
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Larry Bates
Oyvind Ostlund wrote:
I am not sure what the right syntax is here. So please help me out (started 2 days ago).
I have a list of about 20 files that I want to read line by line into a 2D list. So the first dimension will be each file, and the second every line in that file.
I tried to do something like this:
files_and_lines = [][]
filenumber = 0
for files in file_names:
try:
lexi_file = open(str(sys.path[0]) + "/lexi/" + files, "r")
files_and_lines[filenumber] = lexi_file.readlines()
filenumber = filenumber + 1
except(IOError):
print "Something went wrong trying to read the file:"
print "'" + str(sys.path[0]) + files + "'"
But that was not very sucksessfully. I am not even sure on how to define an empty 2D list. Thanks for all help.
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