Best way to delimit a list?

[dannywebster at googlemail.com]

On May 13, 11:51 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:
>
> You meant readlines(), I presume. A file acts as its own iterator:
>
> f=os.open("./get_hostnames")
> try:
>    for line in f:
>      # do something with line
> finally:
>    f.close()
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

Hi - thank you for your reply.

I meant:

f=os.popen("./get_hostnames").readlines()

So f is a list, rather than a file object, of which os.open would have
returned (my initial typo redirected the missive of this post, sorry!)

cheers