[Tutor] Reading elements in a file

[Alan Gauld]

"Jeff Peery" <jeffpeery at seametrics.com> wrote

> Import sting

Its lower case import and I've no idea what sting is! :-)
If its meant to be string you don't need it.

> delimiter = ‘.’
> f = open('words.txt', "r")
> lines = f.readlines()
> for line in lines:
>            line_items = string.split(line,delimiter)

You don't need the readlines(), just do

with open('words.txt', "r") as f:
          line_items = [line.split(',') for line in f]

The string methods are builtin and the string
module is really only needed for backwatds
compatibility these days.

Also this code returns a list of lists of words.
The original code threw away the words after each line.
If you want a single list of words the code would
look more like:

with open('words.txt', "r") as f:
        for line in f:
              line_items += line.split(',')

To the OP: If you want to get rid of the " signs
around your words you can use the strip()
method too.


HTH,

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/