How to read a text file into a list or an array with Python
You will have to split your string into a list of values using split() So, lines = text_file.read().split(‘,’) EDIT: I didn’t realise there would be so much traction to this. Here’s a more idiomatic approach. import csv with open(‘filename.csv’, ‘r’) as fd: reader = csv.reader(fd) for row in reader: # do something