[PLUG] Python Lists and File Reads

Shahms King shahms at shahms.com
Fri Jul 15 23:13:21 UTC 2005


Holger Stephan wrote:
> Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
>>   I had a function working when I specified the input file as "*.py" and
>> imported it as a list. However, I need to be able to use disk files with
>> various names as input, so I changed the code. The function broke (of
>> course!) and I cannot find a web page that gives me the appropriate 
>> methods
>> to use.
> 
>  > ...
> 
> Rich: input.read() gives you an array of strings, one for each line in 
> the input file. Unless you parse those lines with split() or a regex 
> function they are just strings, or character arrays.

input.read() gives you one large string.  input.readlines() gives you a 
list of strings, one per line.

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