using text file to get ip address from hostname

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/12/2012 10:41 AM, dkatorza at gmail.com wrote:


> it's not really homework, i found a lab exercise on the web
 > and i;m trying to study with it. maybe not the most efficient way.
>
> i have a file with hostnames ordered line by line.

Key fact for this exercise: open files are iterable.
So your top level structure is...

for line in open(<hostname file>):
   <process hostname in line>

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Terry Jan Reedy