Populating a list

[Tim Daneliuk]

Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> 
> Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> >
> > mlorfeld wrote:
> > >
> > > I am new to python (about 72 hours into learning), and am having
> > > problems with reading a file (sate abbreviations) with one item per
> > > line and populating each line into a list.  The problem is that each
> > > item ends with \012 after each state ie WI\012.
> > >
> > > Here is the code that I am using:
> > >
> > > f=open('/home/mlorfeld/states.txt', 'r+')
> > > states=f.readlines()#populates a list from file
> > > f.close
> > > print states
> >
> > I think the following works portably so you do not have to fiddle w/ EOL
> > conventions:
> >
> > f=open("xxx.txt")
> > x=f.read().splitlines()
> > f.close()
> >
> > x is now populated with the content of the line regardless of how it ends
> > (or at least this works on a FreeBSD system using a WinDoze text file).
> >
> 
> Whoops, this does NOT achieve the desired effect on Win32.  The second
> line should instead be:
> 
> x=f.read().split("\n")


Oh, never mind, the original version does work - I fatfingered the test
code... Sigh.  The modified version does work, but is limited to DOS type
text files, whereas the original version does appear to be platform neutral.
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