File Handling Problem

Rami Chowdhury rami.chowdhury at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 12:52:34 EDT 2009


> No: readlines () retains the "\n"s; splitlines () loses them

Ah, thank you for the clarification!

On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:39:37 -0700, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>  
wrote:

> Rami Chowdhury wrote:
>>> f = open("myfile.txt", "r")
>>> list_one = f.read().splitlines()
>>> f.close()
>>  Or use f.readlines(), which would do the same thing IIRC?
>
> No: readlines () retains the "\n"s; splitlines () loses them
>
> TJG



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