which is more 'pythonic' / 'better' ?

[Terry Reedy]

"Will McGugan" <news at NOwillmcguganSPAM.com> wrote in message 
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> You may be right. I always use plural nouns for collections.

ditto
> To me 'line' would suggest there was just one of them,
> so I assumed it was string.

I did too.

for line in file('skljflask.txt',r): # or similar

is a common idiom posted here many times.

Terry J. Reedy