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Asked: 2026-06-03T15:58:22+00:00

I have an assessment to do, and here’s my code so far: number1 =

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I have an assessment to do, and here’s my code so far:

number1 = input("Number1? ")

number2 = input("Number2? ")

packages = csv.reader(open('lol.txt', newline='\n'), delimiter=',')
for PackName,PriceAdultString,PriceChildString in packages:
    n += 1
    PriceAdult = float(PriceAdultString)
    PriceChild = float(PriceChildString)
    print("%i. %17s - $%4.2d / $%4.2d" % (n, PackName, PriceAdult, PriceChild))

NameChoice = input("Which name would you like? Choose using a number: ")

The lol.txt used by csv.reader consists of the following:

herp,123,456    
derp,321,654    
hurr,213,546

Now, I need to be able to use NameChoice to retrieve a row from the file, and use the data within as name, number1, and number2, so for NameChoice == 1, name = herp, number1 = 123 and number 2 = 456, and the numbers must be a floating point number.

I’m having trouble figuring this out, and could use some guidance if that’s possible.

Thanks all.

Before it’s asked, I realised I forgot to mention: I have googled, and trawled through the Python guides, and my textbooks. I’m not entirely convinced I know what I’m looking for, though.

Run into a new problem:
I need to be able to take CSV text with ‘\n\n’ instead of ‘\n’, so the text is more like the following:

herp,123,456

derp,321,654

hurr,213,546

My (very slightly adjusted) version of the code Li-Aung used:

import csv
with open ("lol.txt",'rt', newline = '\n\n') as f:
    csv_r = csv.reader (f)
    entries = [ (name, float(p1), float(p2)) for name, p1, p2 in csv_r]

for index, entry in enumerate(entries):
    print ("%2i. %-10s %5.2f %5.2f" % (index, entry[0], entry[1], entry[2]))

choice = int(input("Choose a number: "))

print (entries[choice])

Which returns the exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python32/eh", line 2, in <module>
    with open ("lol.txt",'rt', newline = '\n\n') as f:
ValueError: illegal newline value:

Now, the debug is pretty clear – ‘\n\n’ is not acceptable as a newline specifier, but I was wondering if there is a way around this?

Note: Screwed up the previous edit, the debug from the code with ” newline = ‘\n'” would have been:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python32/eh", line 4, in <module>
    entries = [ (name, float(p1), float(p2)) for name, p1, p2 in csv_r]
  File "C:/Python32/eh", line 4, in <listcomp>
    entries = [ (name, float(p1), float(p2)) for name, p1, p2 in csv_r]
ValueError: need more than 0 values to unpack

Which is because it treated the blank space with 0 values between each useful row as a row, as it was told to do, and there was nothing in there.

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    Store the entire file to a list:

    import csv
with open ("lol.txt",'rb') as f:
    csv_r = csv.reader (f)
    entries = [ (name, float(p1), float(p2)) for name, p1, p2 in csv_r]

for index, entry in enumerate(entries):
    print ("%2i. %-10s %5.2f %5.2f" % (index, entry[0], entry[1], entry[2]))

choice = int(raw_input("Choose a number: "))

print (entries[choice])

    Output:

     0. herp       123.00 456.00
 1. derp       321.00 654.00
 2. hurr       213.00 546.00
Choose a number: 0
('herp', 123.0, 456.0)
>>>
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