Python reading data file into lists or arrays
file-io, python
Solution
If you are using `numpy` (or don't mind using it), you can do `numpy.loadtxt('tarfile.txt', usecols=range(1,8))`. It is particularly nice if you are going to want your data in a 2-d `numpy` array anyway.
Problem
For some reason, I decided to save my list of data as a string. If I use ``` f = open('tarfile.txt') for line in f.readlines(): print line f.close() ``` my output looks like: ``` [ 53.7775 13.4375 26.525 48.63 125. 185. 653. ] [ 53.7775 13.33625 26.73375 48.68375 125. 185. 653. ] [ 53.7775 13.325 27.11375 48.8875 126. 187. 653. ] [ 53.7775 13.43625 27.3175 48.92875 126. 187. 653. ] [ 53.7775 14.4825 33.07375 51.7325 141. 202. 595. ] ``` I would like to read this data in to 2D array. I have searched and tried various methods such as pickle, eval, json, etc but nothing worked