This is my first program in Python

[Richard Zilavec]

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.

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 Richard Zilavec
 rzilavec at tcn.net