[PLUG] Python Lists and File Reads

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Holger Stephan wrote:

> 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.

Holger,

   Aha! That's useful knowledge. I had all strings on a single line, not as
individual lines. I guess there's a difference in the best input file format
if the file's to be read into a list or something else.

> Thank you for the reference you sent yesterday. I will check it out over the 
> weekend.

   You're welcome.

Rich

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