[Tutor] Lists in a file

[Robert Berman]

David,

You are processing a text file. It is your job to treat it as a file 
comprised of lists. I think what you are saying is that each line in the 
text file is a list. In that case

for line in fileobject:
    listline = list(line)

Now, listline is a list of the text items in line.

Hope this helps.

Robert Berman

David Holland wrote:
> 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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