How to store the contents of a file into a list?

[Daniel]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 14:44:45 -0600 (CST), Skip Montanaro
<skip at mojam.com> wrote:


>Try this:
>
>  f = open("/tmp/recordfile")
>  l1 = []
>  for line in f.readlines():
>    line = line.rstrip()	# remove trailing line ending
>    l1.append(line.split(",")
>
>The split at the commas maps the string "rec11,rec12,rec13" into the list
>["rec11","rec12","rec13"].  That list gets appended to l1 which winds up as
>a list of lists of strings instead of a list of strings.
>
>Cheers,
>
>-- 
>Skip Montanaro (skip at mojam.com)

Skip, Emile, thanks for the replies.  I've learned what that split()
means after all!

best regards,
Daniel
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