Jia, print ''.join( open( 'Direct_Irr.txt' ).read().split() )
Broken out: - open(): open file - read(): read its entire contents as one string - split(): split the contents into a list of lines (splits lines at \n; does not include \n in split values) - ''.join(): join list of lines with an empty char Malcolm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list