Best way to delimit a list?

[dannywebster at googlemail.com]

On May 13, 11:28 am, dannywebs... at googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi - I have a list returned from popen/readlines, and am wondering how
> to go about iterating over each item which was returned (rather than
> currently having the whole lot returned).
>
> so far:
>
> >>> f=os.open("./get_hostnames").readlines
>
> returns ['host1 host2 host3 ... hostN\n]'
>
> i'd like to be in a position to iterate through these, grabbing each
> host.  I have played with transmuting to a str, and using split, and
> this works, but I get the subscript brackets from the list output as
> expected, as the list output is now a string literal, and this is not
> what I want - and I think it's a bit long-winded to do a search 'n
> replace on it - hence why I ask in the subject what's the best way.
>
> >>> f=str(f)
> >>> f.split()
>
> ["['host1","host2", ... ,"hostN\n']"]
>
> Any help is highly appreciated
>
> ta
>
> dan.

I did indeed mean "os.popen", no "os.open"