May I drop list bracket from list?

[Ben Bacarisse]

subhabrata.banerji at gmail.com writes:

> I am trying to read a list of files as 
> list_of_files = glob.glob('C:\Python27\*.*')
> Now I am trying to read each one of them, 
> convert into list of words, and append to a list
> as.
>
> list1=[]
> for file in list_of_files:
>       print file
>       fread1=open(file,"r").read()
>       fword=fread1.split()
>       list1.append(fword)
>
> Here the list is a list of lists, but I want only one list not 
> list of lists.

You probably want list.extend(fword) here.  Python's ternimology is a
little quirky here -- in some other languages (ntable the mother of all
list langiages, Lisp), the append function does what Python's extend
does.

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-- 
Ben.