Putting a line from a text file into a variable, then moving to next line

Michal Bozon bozonm at vscht.cz
Sun Oct 7 08:45:19 EDT 2007


On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:00:44 +0000, Vernon Wenberg III wrote:

> I'm not really sure how readline() works. Is there a way to iterate 
> through a file with multiple lines and then putting each line in a 
> variable in a loop?

There are always more ways how to do it.. one of them is:

f = open(filename)
for line in f:
    # you may then strip the newline:
    line = line.strip('\n')
    # do anything you want with the line 
f.close()



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