[Tutor] Lists in a file

[David Holland]

Hi,

I am trying to create a program where I open a file full of lists and process them.
However when the program does not recognize the lists as lists.
Here is the relevant code :-
def open_filedef():
    text_file =open ("voteinp.txt","r")
    lines = text_file.readlines()
    
    
    for line in lines:
        print line
        print line[0]
          
    text_file.close()

And an example of the type of text :-

['a','b','c']
['e','d','f']

Any ideas?


Thanks in advance


David Holland



      
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