Best way to delimit a list?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 13 May 2008 07:28:03 -0300, <dannywebster at googlemail.com> escribió:

> 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]'

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