Moving from perl to python: questions

[Nathan Clegg]

On 16-Feb-2000 David R. Favor wrote:
>   2) How to implement a no-frills file slurp() function


import string

def slurp(filename):
 print filename
 try:
  f = open(filename, 'r')
 # catch whichever exceptions you fancy, here

 # rstrip will strip all whitespace off the right side,
 # much like chomp
 lines = map(string.rstrip, f.readlines())

 f.close

 return lines



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Nathan Clegg
 nathan at islanddata.com