Python: How to parse data from text file to 2 Dimensional list/array

Question

I have data like this stored in a text file:

ABC,0x1: XYZ,0x2:

I want to parse this data into 2 dimensional array, currently i can parse data separated by ':' using following code,

text_file = open("string.txt", "r")
parsed_data = text_file.read().split(':')

My question is that how can i store this data into 2-D list such that parsed_data[0][0] will contain ABC, parsed_data[0][1] contain 0x1 and so on.

blhsing · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-02 05:55:18Z

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You can use list comprehension like this:

parsed_data = [t.split(',') for t in text_file.read().split(':')]

answered Oct 2, 2018 at 5:55

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Sven Harris · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-02 05:47:52Z

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You could try something like this:

with open("string.txt", "r") as text_file:
    parsed_data = [[x.split(",")[0], x.split(",")[1]] for x in text_file.read().split(':') if x != ""]

answered Oct 2, 2018 at 5:47

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