Emile van Sebille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >data = zip(*[xx.split() for xx in open('data.txt').read().split("\n")])
Files are iterable: data = zip(*[xx.rstrip().split() for xx in open('data.txt')]) saves you creating the extra intermediate list resulting from split("\n"). -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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