Newby: how to transform text into lines of text
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
bj_666 at gmx.net
Mon Jan 26 17:12:43 EST 2009
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:10:11 +0100, Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
> On 26 Jan 2009 14:51:33 GMT Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:22:18 +0000, Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
>>
>> > content = a.readlines()
>> >
>> > (Just because we can now write "for line in file" doesn't mean that
>> > readlines() is *totally* redundant.)
>>
>> But ``content = list(a)`` is shorter. :-)
>>
> But much less clear, wouldn't you say?
Okay, so let's make it clearer and even shorter: ``lines = list(a)``. :-)
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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