code practice: test = open ("test.txt", "r") readData = test.readlines() #set up a sum sum = 0; for item in readData: sum += int(item) print sum
test file looks something like this: 34 23 124 432 12 when i am trying to compile this it gives me the error: invalid literal for int() with base 10 i know a lot of people get this and it usually means that you try to cast a string into an integer and this string does not really contain a “digit”..so I am just not sure how to correct it in this case... thanks for your input -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list