Best way to delimit a list?

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On May 13, 11:25 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 04:14:16 -0700 (PDT), dannywebs... at googlemail.com
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > 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!)
>
>         Other than the facet that os.open() is low-level C file object and
> not a Python file object...
>
>         What you have returned is a list of lines... Hmmm, if os.popen()
> supports .readlines() it might even support direct iteration
>
> for ln in os.popen():
>         do something with the line
>
>         Now the matter comes down to what each line looks like... It is NOT
> a "list" in Python terms, no matter what delimiters it has (and one of
> your examples doesn't even seem to be consistant -- [' .... ]' is not
> the same as [' .... '] )
>
>         For space separated hostnames....
>
> for ln in os.popen(...):        #assuming it works without a preread
>         for host in ln.split():
>                 do something with host...
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Compositions can't have names in the singular case.