[Tutor] how to get a line text from input file.

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Wed Mar 22 04:20:06 CET 2006


Keo Sophon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i am new to programming language and python. I wonder how to get a line text 
> from input file.

The simplest Python idiom to do something with each line of a file is this:
   for line in open('somefile.txt'):
     # do something with line

You can find out more here:
http://docs.python.org/tut/node9.html#SECTION009200000000000000000

Kent



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