Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:04:09 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Max=20Russell?= <max_russell2000@yahoo.co.uk> To: Max Russell <max_russell2000@yahoo.co.uk>, freebsd-python@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Splitting elements on a line? Message-ID: <20040824150409.67240.qmail@web25406.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040824105814.36955.qmail@web25408.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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P.S:
sorry about the whole "c:\" business. Protype is on
Windows. Boo Hiss.
--- Max Russell <max_russell2000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello-
> If I have a file made up of lines like this:
>
> one two three
> four five six
> seven eight nine
>
> how can I read the individual items into a lit, so
> that I do not get each list item consisting of
> something like:
> "one two three"
>
> Currently I have this:
> import os, os.path, random
> filename = ("C:\list.txt")
> file = open(filename,"r")
> word_list = file.readlines()
> file.close()
> print word_list
>
> # output from this program has format ['one two
> three\n', 'four five six']
> # therefore- need to split each item into individual
> compenents
> # also- need to remove whitespace and newline
> character
>
> So:
>
> Would I perform a split after all of the above?
>
> Would I be better performing the split before
> reading
> the items into the list?
>
> thanks
> Max
>
>
>
>
>
>
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