I'm an idiot

[David Griswold]

Thanks.  I actually figured out the missing parentheses, and the typo on 
the split/strip..  I will blame Active Python for being TOO helpful on 
the former and a brainfart on the latter.

Now one more thing is happening I can't figure out.  When readline gets 
to the end of the file (the file is only 34k) it just keeps on reading 
blank lines.  Am I missing something?  I even changed my error I am 
checking for to EOFError.

Thanks again.

David

"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry at attbi.com> wrote in
news:mailman.1025313281.20462.python-list at python.org: 

>> 
>> f=open('c:\\temp\\temp.txt', 'r')
>> g=open('c:\\temp\\temp1.txt', 'w')
>> while 1:
>>     try:
>>         s=f.readline
> 
> should be 's = f.readline() # I am a method, not a variable'
> 
>>         g.write(s.split())
> 
> split() takes a string and breaks it into pieces, this is not exactly
> what you want, for instance 'this is a line' will beceome ['this',
> 'is', 'a', 'line']. 
> 
>>     except IOError:
>>         break
>> 
>> g.close
>> f.close
> 
> these too should have () on the end.
> 
> 
>