list to string

[David LeBlanc]

To all who replied - many thanks!

Skip surmized correctly that I just wanted a big string (with embedded
newlines) instead of the list of lists that readlines() returns.

Regards,

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-admin at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Skip Montanaro
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 15:00
> To: David LeBlanc
> Cc: Python-List at Python. Org
> Subject: Re: list to string
>
>
>
>     David> fn = file('foo.txt')
>     David> txt = fn.readlines()
>     David> str = ?something?(txt) # or txt.?something?()...
>
> Assuming what you really want is to get the contents of the file in one
> gulp, this should work:
>
>     fn = file('foo.txt')
>     str = fn.read()
>
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