simple files

[Andreas Jung]

--On Freitag, 30. Mai 2003 23:18 Uhr -0700 Darren Teo 
<darrenteo82 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Hey how come when i do this it just outputs the last line and not the
> rest of the lines ??? I wish to output each line from file into a
> seperate list ..... eg. first line ['1', 'yea', '2']
>      sec line ['3', 'hi', '4']
>
> def readtable(filename):
>
>    intabfile = open(filename, "r")
>    for tablines in intabfile:
>       tab = string.split(tablines, ":" ,10)
>    intabfile.close()
>    return tab
>

because tab is assigned the content of the last line in the last iteration 
of the loop.
so what else do you expect??

-aj