read in a list in a file to list
john polo
jpolo at mail.usf.edu
Sat Apr 8 14:32:20 EDT 2017
Hi,
I am using Python 3.6 on Windows 7.
I have a file called apefile.txt. apefile.txt's contents are:
apes = "Home sapiens", "Pan troglodytes", "Gorilla gorilla"
I have a script:
apefile = open("apefile.txt")
apelist = apefile.read()
for ape in apelist:
print("one of the apes is " + ape)
apefile.close()
The output from the script does not print the ape names, instead it
prints each letter in the file. For example:
one of the apes is a
one of the apes is p
one of the apes is e
What should I do instead to get something like
one of the apes is Home sapiens
one of the apes is Pan troglodytes
one of the apes is Gorilla gorilla
John
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