Reading a file, sans whitespace

[Konstantin Veretennicov]

"Michael Geary" <Mike at DeleteThis.Geary.com> wrote in message news:<10b2dvrfqhmbm5a at corp.supernews.com>...
> 
> import re
> reWhitespace = re.compile( '\s+' )
> for line in file( 'inputFile' ).readlines():
>     print reWhitespace.split( line.strip() )
> 
> But for a large file, the second version will be faster because the regular

And you'll want to use "for line in file('inputFile')"
instead of "for line in file('inputFile').readlines()",
especially for large files ;)

- kv