[Tutor] easy newbie questions: text file to list?

[Bob Gailer]

At 06:50 PM 5/19/2003 +0000, ashleigh smythe wrote:

>Hello.  I have a text file that looks like this:
>
>Y16911
>AF202148
>U81576
>AF202159
>...
>
>I can get Python2.2 on my Linux to read the file with file.read() which
>makes it look like this:
>'Y16911\nAF202148\nU81576\n...'
>
>I would like to turn these items into a list

1) file.readlines(). That will give you a list of lines with \n at the end 
of each line.
2) file.read().split('\n'). That will give you a list of lines without \n 
at the end.

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Bob Gailer
bgailer@alum.rpi.edu
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