Python - Read comma separated values from a text file, then output result to text file [closed]

Answer 1

Wondering if the file has only comma separated values then why not save file as ".csv" format. If you can then:

You can always use a csv reader to read any CSV file as mentioned under the docs: http://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html

Quick example for your scenario:

with open('test.csv','rb') as csvfile:
    csvreader = csv.reader(csvfile)
    output_fil = open('output.txt', 'ab')
    for row in csvreader:
        result = 0
        for elem in row:
            result = result + int(elem)
        print result
        output_fil.writelines(str(result))

Where text.csv would contain input like:

1,2,3
4,5,6
...

and output.txt shall contain:

6
15
..