[Tutor] counting in a file

[Magnus Lycka]

At 18:54 2002-11-17 -0500, reavey wrote:
>a = 0
>while a<10:
>         new = z.readline().strip()
>         a = a+1

To be honest, I don't understand what you try to do,
but that piece of code is better written as

for a in range(10):
     new = z.readline().strip()

(which seems strange as you overwrite the nine first
values in new with the next line you read in.)


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