readline in while loop

[Gerhard Häring]

Geert Fannes <geert.fannes at esat.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
> hello, i tried to construct a program to read a file, line after line. i 
> have no idea why it does not work...
> 
> f=file("test.txt","r");
> while l=f.readline():
> 	print l;
> [...]

Not sure what your problem is. But I'd suggest you just iterate over the file,
line by line:

f = file("test.txt")
for line in f:
    line = line.strip()
    ...
f.close()

-- Gerhard