read() file??

[Skip Montanaro]

    Juliano> I have a file with assembler instruction and i want read the
    Juliano> lines of the file and put in a list of string, this is easy to
    Juliano> do, but i don´t want to consider the caracteres "/" and the
    Juliano> othes after him.

    Juliano> file.asm:
    Juliano> ADD D1  /coment1
    Juliano> LDA D2  /coment2

    Juliano> list of strings:
    Juliano> X=[ 'ADD D1' , 'LDA D2' ]
	
How about:

import re
x = []
for line in file("file.asm"):
    line = re.sub(r"\s*/.*", "", line.strip())
    x.append(line)

?

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