"danmcle...@yahoo.com" <danmcle...@yahoo.com> writes: >> The problem is when I get to the last line. When the program sees '\n' >> after the 9, everything works fine. However, when there isn't a '\n', >> the program doesn't process the last line. >> >> What would be the best approach to handle the case of the possible >> missing '\n' at the end of the file? > > use readines to read all lines into a list and then iterate thru the > list: > > f = open(r'c:\test.txt', 'rb') > print f.readlines() > >>> > ['1\r\n', '3\r\n', '5\r\n', '7\r\n', '3\r\n', '9']
There's no real point in contructing a list. Just do with open(r'c:\test.txt') as f: for l in f: print int(l) As long as you just have digits and whitespace then that's fine - int() will do as you want. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list