How to split (and store) data from text file?-CodePudding

I have a text file that isformatted where there is data that is being separated with ; (for example apples;oranges;grapes), and I need to split the list into 3 separate items (apples, oranges, grapes). So far my code is as follows

doc = open("doc.txt", "r")
alist = []
line = doc.readline()
line = line.strip()
stuff = line.split(";")
alist.append(stuff)
print(alist)
print(len(alist))

But the output is just all the items in the list stores as one element ["Apples", "Oranges", "Grapes] with the len() of 1

I would need them to be separated so that I could use formatting when printing

Thanks for the help! :)

CodePudding user response：

its because you are using append which inserts whole list at the rear end of list instead use extend as below example might be useful to differentiate both:

>>> a = []
>>> a.extend([1,2,3])
>>> a
[1, 2, 3]
>>> a.append([4,5,6])
>>> a
[1, 2, 3, [4, 5, 6]]
>>>

CodePudding user response：

You can use a for loop to append each item one by one.

for i in stuff:
    alist.append(i)