I'm an idiot

[David]

OK, I am the first to admit it.  I am an idiot.  I have RTFM on this over 
and over, and I can still not figure out what I am doing wrong.

I think the intent of the code is obvious, but just to clarify, I want to 
read every line in a file and write those lines back out to another file, 
but with leading and training space removed.  I also want to have some 
elegant way to determine that I have reached the end of the file and 
break out of the loop.

And just to explain my stupidity, my reference langauge is BASIC.  I 
could have written this in BASIC in a minute, but I need to learn 
something new.  Any help would be appreciated.

David


f=open('c:\\temp\\temp.txt', 'r')
g=open('c:\\temp\\temp1.txt', 'w')
while 1:
    try:
        s=f.readline
        g.write(s.split())
    except IOError:
        break

g.close
f.close