iterating over a list and printing

[Bart Nessux]

Richie Hindle wrote:
> [Bart]
> 
>>>>ip_list.append(inputFile.read())
> 
> 
> You probably meant something like this (untested):
> 
> inputFile = file('ips.txt', 'r')
> ip_list = inputFile.readlines()   # Note readlines() rather than read()
> inputFile.close()
> for i in ip_list:
>     print "/sbin/ifconfig %s netmask 255.255.252.0 broadcast 128.173.123.255 up" %i
> 
> If you really do need to create ip_list up front and append to it,
> you should use extend() rather than append() - see the "mutable
> sequence types" documentation for details.
> 

Thanks to everyone for the replies. This works now.