simple files

[Dave Harrison]

oops ... didnt syntax check that code ;-) *grin* my bad ...

you get the idea tho *chuckle*

Dave Harrison (dave at nullcube.com):
> > Hey how come when i do this it just outputs the last line and not the rest of the lines ??? I wish to output each line from file into a seperate list .....
> > eg. first line ['1', 'yea', '2']
> >      sec line ['3', 'hi', '4']
> >
> > def readtable(filename):
> >    intabfile = open(filename, "r")
> >    for tablines in intabfile:
> >       tab = string.split(tablines, ":" ,10)
> >    intabfile.close()
> >    return tab
> 
> essentially what you have done is :
> 
> - open the file
> - for each line of the file assign THAT line to a single variable
> 
> then print that variable, which at the end of the file will
> be the last line.
> 
> What you want to do is :
> 
> def readFile(filename):
> 	# Declare the list to populate
> 	retList = []
> 
> 	# Open file and create list of line, the file object
> 	# will pass out of scope at the end of the call and die
> 	myFileList = file(filename).readlines()
> 	
> 	# For each line in our file
> 	for line in myFileList:
> 		# Append the split to the list
> 		retList.append(string.split(line, ':', 10)
> 
> 	# Now return our 2d list of line lists
> 	return retList
> 
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