Newbie question: Any way to improve this code?

[David M. Cook]

In article <bqqvnl$kbo$1 at taurus.webcorp.pl>, Gustavo Campanelli wrote:
 
> import string
> f = open("firmas.txt",'r') # open the file
> texto = f.read ()
> n = range (len (texto))
> frases = [0]
> frase =""
> cant = 0
> for a in n:
>      if texto [a] != "\n":
>         frase = frase + (texto [a])
>      else:
>          if cant == 0:
>              frases [0] = frase
>          else:
>              frases.append (1)
>              frases [cant] = frase
>          cant +=1
>          frase = ""

f = open("firmas.txt",'r') # open the file
frases = []
for line in f.readlines():
    frases.append(line[:-1])
    
line[:-1] is all but the last element of line.
    
or even

frases = map(str.rstrip, f.readlines())

although that may strip more of the end than you want.
        
Dave Cook