[Tutor] text module

[Kyle Babich]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:18:22 +0200 (MEST), lumbricus@gmx.net said:
> Hi!
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> > (called it the text module, any better
> > ideas?)=20
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> Yes - wc.py, because it does just, what the *NIX wc(1) (word count)
> command does :-)
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> > that will do all of this.  Before I got to far into this I
> > thought I would ask people opinions on this idea and what I have so
> > far.
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> > First of all I would appeciate it if you could test what I have so fa=
r.
> >  Here is the source (text.py):
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> > def LineCount(location):
> >     subj =3D file(location, "r")
> >     body =3D subj.readlines()
> >     subj.close()
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> >     lines =3D 0
> >     for each in body:
> >         lines =3D lines + 1
> >     print lines
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> Why not
> def LineCount(location):
> 	subj=3Dfile(location, "r")
> 	body=3Dsubj.readlines()
> 	subj.close()
> 	return len(body)

Because I always make more work for myself than I need too.  :)
I just changed it to the len(body) way.  I also fully commented it and
changed all of the prints to returns.
I think I will rename it to wc or something similar soon also.

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> HTH, HAND
> J"o!
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Kyle