Question

What I am doing is that I have a file which contains some data as follows:

ben     | 2 | 40
germany | 6 | 60

What I need as an output is::

ben     | 2 | 40
germany | 6 | 60

field 1 =   8
field 2 = 100

Please suggest me some solution to move ahead in Python.

Answer 1

there’s probably a more elegant way to do this…

results = [0, 0]
with open("\path\to\file.txt") as f:
    for line in f:
        values = line.split("|")
        results[0] += int(values[1])
        results[1] += int(values[2])

print("field 1 = " + str(results[0]), "field 2 = " + str(results[1]))