How to to read a matrix from a given file?

Question

I have a text file which contains matrix of N * M dimensions.

For example the input.txt file contains the following:

Answer 1

You can do this:

fin = open('input.txt','r')
a=[]
for line in fin.readlines():
    a.append( [ int (x) for x in line.split(',') ] )

Answer 2

The following does what you want:

l = []
with open('input.txt', 'r') as f:
  for line in f:
    line = line.strip()
    if len(line) > 0:
      l.append(map(int, line.split(',')))
print l

Answer 3

Consider

with open('input.txt', 'r') as f:
    l = [[int(num) for num in line.split(',')] for line in f]
print(l)

produces

[[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1], [0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2], [1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1]]

Note that you have to split on commas.

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If you do have blank lines then change

l = [[int(num) for num in line.split(',')] for line in f ]

to

l = [[int(num) for num in line.split(',')] for line in f if line.strip() != "" ]

Answer 4

You should not write your csv parser, consider the csv module when reading such files and use the with statement to close after reading:

import csv

with open('input.txt') ad f:
    data = [map(int, row) for row in csv.reader(f)]

Answer 5

import numpy as np
f = open ( 'input.txt' , 'r')
l = []
l = np.array([ line.split() for line in f])
print (l)
type(l)

output:

[['0']  ['0']  ['0']  ['0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0'] 
    ['0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0'] 
['0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0']] 

numpy.ndarray

Answer 6

Check out this small one line code for reading matrix,

matrix = [[input() for x in range(3)] for y in range(3)]

this code will read matrix of order 3*3.