I started out with a 4d list, something like
tokens = [[[["a"], ["b"], ["c"]], [["d"]]], [[["e"], ["f"], ["g"]],[["h"], ["i"], ["j"], ["k"], ["l"]]]]
So I converted this to a csv file using the code
import csv
def export_to_csv(tokens):
csv_list = [["A", "B", "C", word]]
for h_index, h in enumerate(tokens):
for i_index, i in enumerate(h):
for j_index, j in enumerate(i):
csv_list.append([h_index, i_index, j_index, j])
with open('TEST.csv', 'w') as f:
# using csv.writer method from CSV package
write = csv.writer(f)
write.writerows(csv_list)
But now I want to do the reverse process, want to convert a csv file obtained in this format, back to the list format mentioned above.
Assuming you wanted your csv file to look something like this (there were a couple typos in the posted code):
A,B,C,word
0,0,0,a
0,0,1,b
0,0,2,c
...
here's one solution:
import csv
def import_from_csv(filename):
retval = []
with open(filename) as fh:
reader = csv.reader(fh)
# discard header row
next(reader)
# process data rows
for (x,y,z,word) in reader:
x = int(x)
y = int(y)
z = int(z)
retval.extend([[[]]] * (x + 1 - len(retval)))
retval[x].extend([[]] * (y + 1 - len(retval[x])))
retval[x][y].extend([0] * (z + 1 - len(retval[x][y])))
retval[x][y][z] = [word]
return retval