Populating a list

[Bruce Eckel]

I would probably do it like this:
lines = [l.rstrip() for l in open('filename')]
In Python 2.2 you don't have to say "readlines", as open() produces
an iterator.
Using rstrip(), I believe, handles more general cases (some oses
have two characters to end a line, rather than just one).

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On 12/9/01 at 8:01 PM A. Keyton Weissinger wrote:

>So we're clear. You can either do it this way:
>
>states = []
>f=open('/home/mlorfeld/states.txt', 'r+').readlines()
>for i in f:
>  states.append(i.rstrip())
>print states
>
>The rstrip() method, as you can probably guess, strips white
spaces from
>the
>RIGHT end of the string.
>
>or (from Mr. Martelli -- I like this one better):
>
>f = open('/home/mlorfeld/states.txt', 'r+')
>states = [ line[:-1] for line in f.readlines() ]
>f.close()
>
>Sorry for the misinformation, folks.
>
>Keyton
>
>
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