newbie question...

[Justin Sheehy]

Alexander Sendzimir <sendzimir at earthlink.net> writes:

> the following Perl construct is pretty standard.
> 
>     while ( <SOMEFILEHANDLE> )
>     {
>         # process each line as if comes off the file handle...
>     }

Yep.

> The equivalent Python appears to be
> 
>     somefilehandle = open( "some/file/name.text" )
>     all_the_lines_in_the_file = somefilehandle.readlines()
>     somefilehandle.close()
> 
>     # now process the lines in the all_the_lines_... list

If you want to be more succint and not mess around with temporary
variables, you could do:

for line in open('some/file/name.text').readlines():
    # process each line...

-Justin