Iterating over a dictionary's sorted keys

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

Alan Daniels wrote:
> 
> On 25 May 2000 08:56:38 GMT, Remco Gerlich
> <scarblac-spamtrap at pino.selwerd.nl> wrote:
> 
> [snip...]
> >Why the problem with multiple lines and an extra variable here and there?
> 
> Yes, but the short version reminds me very much of one of my favorite
> python idioms:
> 
>     lines = open("some_file", "rt").readlines()
> 

If you don't want the newlines, you can do this:

alist=open("some_file","rt").read().split()

in 1.6.

<at-least-you-should-be-able-to>-ly y'rs,
Ivan
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