I have a .txt file called geom.txt that looks like the following -3.0 2.0 # coor

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I have a .txt file called geom.txt that looks like the following

-3.0 2.0                           # coordinates of P
2.0 -1.0                           # coordinates of Q
2.0 1.0 3.0                        # center and radius of C
-2.0 -3.0 5.0                      # center and radius of D
2.0 6.0 8.0 4.0                    # coord ul and lr of rectangle G
-3.0 2.0 4.0 -3.0                  # coord ul and lr of rectangle H

I am trying to find a code in PYTHON where I can get the floating numbers only and omit anything past the '#' sign

Explanation / Answer

#!/usr/bin/python

##Open the file geom.txt

fileob = open( "./geom.txt", "r")

#Read the entire file at once

str = fileob.read()

#Create a list of lines by spliting the data read from the file (assuming ' ' to be the delimiter)

lines = str.split(" ")
i = 0

#Loop over the list of lines

#Split each line using "#" as a delimiter

#The value_part[0] now contains the list of floating values in each line. Similarly split the value_part using " "(space) as a delimiter

for val in lines:
value_part = val.split("#")
float_values = value_part[0].split(" ")
print float_values

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