The idiomatic way would be iterating over the file-object itself - which
will get you the lines:
with open("foo.txt") as inf:
for line in inf:
print line
In versions of Python before the "with" was introduced (as in the
2.4 installations I've got at both home and work), this can simply be
for line in open("foo.txt"):
print line
If you are processing lots of files, you can use
f = open("foo.txt")
for line in f:
print line
f.close()
One other caveat here, "line" contains the newline at the end, so
you might have
print line.rstrip('\r\n')
to remove them.
content = a.read()
for line in content.split("\n"):
print line
Strings have a "splitlines()" method for this purpose:
content = a.read()
for line in content.splitlines():
print line
-tkc
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