simple files

[Chad Netzer]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 23:18, Darren Teo 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 .....

Assuming you want tab to be a list of lists, try this:

def readtable(filename):
   tab=[]
   intabfile = open(filename, "r")
   for tablines in intabfile:
      tab.append(string.split(tablines, ":" ,10))
   intabfile.close()
   return tab


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Chad Netzer
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