Moving from perl to python: questions

[Gaetan Corneau]

> > >   2) How to implement a no-frills file slurp() function
> > 
> > What is a "slurp" function?
> 
> Hum... The attachment of my code didn't make it. Let's try 
> this again...

Something like this?

def slurp(filename):
   "Slurp all the lines of a file into an array"
   return open(filename).readlines()

You can simplify "chomp", too:

# I didn't try it, but it should work :)
def chomp(lines):
   "remove the end of line markers from array"
   import os
   nl_len = len(os.linesep)   # length of os dependent line seperator
   for i in range(0, len(lines)):
    lines[i] = lines[i][:-nl_len]

Hope ths helps,
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