Populating a list

[Alex Martelli]

mlorfeld wrote:

> I am new to python (about 72 hours into learning), and am having
> problems with reading a file (sate abbreviations) with one item per
> line and populating each line into a list.  The problem is that each
> item ends with \012 after each state ie WI\012.

Yes, the \n character, also known as \012, is indeed part of each line.

> Here is the code that I am using:
> 
> f=open('/home/mlorfeld/states.txt', 'r+')
> states=f.readlines()#populates a list from file
> f.close
> print states

Perfectly correct code.  If you prefer to remove the last character of each 
line, or perform other alterations, try:

states = [ line[:-1] for line in f.readlines() ]

instead of just using "states = f.readlines()", which does no alterations.


Akex