file pointer array

[Jon Clements]

On 06/06/12 19:51, MRAB wrote:
> On 06/06/2012 19:28, Jon Clements wrote:
>> On 06/06/12 18:54, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
>>> data= []
>>> for index in range(N, 1): # see Chris Rebert's comment
>>> with open('data%d.txt' % index,'r') as f:
>>> data.append( f.readlines() )
>>>
>>
>> I think "data.extend(f)" would be a better choice.
>>
> .extend does something different, and "range(N, 1)" is an empty range
> if N > 0.

Mea culpa -  I had it in my head the OP wanted to treat the files as one 
contiguous one. So yeah:

# something equiv to... (unless it is definitely a fixed range in which
# case (x)range can be used)
data = [ list(open(fname)) for fname in iglob('/home/jon/data*.txt') ]

# then if they ever need to treat it as a contiguous sequence...
all_data = list(chain.from_iterable(data))

Jon.