This is my first program in Python

[Prateep Siamwalla]

I tried your program on my PythonWin editor, and it worked for me.  What
error message did you get?

contents of file c:\blank\globs.txt:
one:alpha
two:beta
three:gamma


>>> def trythisout():
...  f = open(r'c:\blank\globs.txt','r')
...  for line in f.readlines():
...      (first,second) = string.split(line,":",1)
...      print first
...  f.close()
...
>>> trythisout()
one
two
three

did you get a "ValueError: unpack list of wrong size" error?  If you did,
then one of your input lines probably is missing a ":"

hope this helps.

teep



Richard Zilavec <rzilavec at tcn.net> wrote in message
news:3a66a585.268350144 at news.tcn.net...
>
> I've spent the last few weeks trying to find a good book on Python.
> Seems that most stores don't carry a large selection, however I found
> The Quick Python Book..  The material seems to flow in the right
> direction and the fonts are easy on the eyes.
>
> Anyways, I wrote my first program but was stumped on readline().  I
> could get the first line, but not the rest of the file.  I tried
> searching python.org and could not find an example.... well here it
> is:
>
> import string
> file = open("/tmp/globs", 'r')
> for line in file.readlines():
>         (first,second) = string.split(line,':',1)
>         print first
> file.close()
>
> This was my first attempt, which looks like it should work but failed:
> invalid syntax.  Is this not possible?
> while line = file.readlines():
>
> Am I using string.split properly?
>
> I was quite happy with how easy this was to put together, I'm just not
> sure if its totally correct.
>
> --
>  Richard Zilavec
>  rzilavec at tcn.net