[Tutor] search list with regex

[Alan Gauld]

"Elwin Estle" <chrysalis_reborn at yahoo.com> wrote

> parse various text files and my standard method is to
> slurp the whole thing up into a string variable, then
> break it up into a list that I can then work on

If you read it with readlines() Python will do all of
that for you...

HTH,


-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/








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