read files

[Alex Ezell]

You might could do one of these two methods:

fd.readlines()

or:

for line in fd:
    print line

These are both from the Python tutorial found here:
http://docs.python.org/tut/node9.html#SECTION009210000000000000000

/alex

On Jan 21, 2008 9:00 PM, J. Peng <jpeng at block.duxieweb.com> wrote:
> first I know this is the correct method to read and print a file:
>
> fd = open("/etc/sysctl.conf")
> done=0
> while not done:
>     line = fd.readline()
>     if line == '':
>         done = 1
>     else:
>         print line,
>
> fd.close()
>
>
> I dont like that flag of "done",then I tried to re-write it as:
>
> fd = open("/etc/sysctl.conf")
> while line = fd.readline():
>     print line,
> fd.close()
>
>
> this can't work.why?
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