Need a little parse help

[Mike Meyer]

"Michael Hartl" <mhartl at post.harvard.edu> writes:

> I'd also like to note that both the inputfiles variable and the
> readlines() method are superfluous; to iterate through the file line by
> line, use either
>
> for line in open(inputfilename):
>     # do something with line
>
> or (my personal preference, since I like to think of the file as a
> thing rather than an action)
>
> for line in file(inputfilename):
>     # do something with line

I'd like to note that failing to close the file explicitly is a bad
habit. You really should invoke the close method, rather than relying
on the garbage collector to close them for you. This means you do need
a variable to hold the file object. 99% of the time nothing bad will
happen if you skip this, but that 1% can always come back to byte you
in the *ss.

     <mike
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