[Tutor] Looking for Words - Help

[Alan Gauld]

On 11/10/13 16:23, Peter Otten wrote:

>>>>>        infile = open(name, 'r')
>>>>>        lst = infile.readlines()
>>>>>        infile.close()
>>>>
>>>> You could do that in one line:
>>>>
>>>>           lst = open(name).readlines()
>>>
>>> Talking about bad habits -- what you are suggesting here is a step in the
>>> wrong direction.
>>>
>>> with open(name) as infile:
>>>       lines = infile.readlines()

Good point, I should have used with.
(Slaps self on face with wet fish!)

>> for line in infile: ?

I actually considered this but decided it was one step too
far for the OP.

> an intermediate Python user and know about generators you can try
> to implement a generator like

I also considered a generator but decided that was way
too much for the OP! :-)

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