[Tutor] newbie: Reading text file

[Duncan Gibson]

> I have a text file (mylist.py actually), it contains exactly below:
> ---------------
> # file mylist.py
> jobs = [
>         'Lions',
>         'SysTest',
>         'trainDD',
>         'Cats',
>         'train',
>         'sharks',
>         'whale',
>         ]
> ----------------
> 
> I want to write another script and get the list "jobs" from the above
> script.

I assume you mean in another python script? Try:

import mylist
print mylist.jobs