[Tutor] spliting to chars

[Mark Kels]

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 21:04:56 +0200, Anna Ravenscroft <revanna at mn.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> If you're just looking for a list of all the items, including the
> spaces, you can do it very simply:
> 
>  >>> mystring = "abcd efgh ijklmnop"
>  >>> mylist = list(mystring)
>  >>> print mylist
> ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', ' ', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', ' ', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l',
> 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p']
> 
> If you want to get the characters without the spaces, you could do it
> with a conditional list comprehension:
> 
>  >>> mychars = [char for char in mystring if char != ' ']
>  >>> print mychars
> ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n',
> 'o', 'p']
>  >>>
> 
> HTH,
> Anna
> 

But if I read the string from a file it doesnt work... :-(
>>> a=open("c:\\lol.txt","r")
>>> p=list(a)
>>> print p
['abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz']

How can I do it on a string from a file ?