Sorry its true, i made a mistake. Readlines is a list with all the lines inside. I never used readlines (i usually use read), i just read about it on the tutorial long time ago.
>>> f.readlines() ['This is the first line of the file.\n', 'Second line of the file\n' Thanks for the help. On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoob...@gmail.com>wrote: > I believe readlines returns a list of strings, not a list of lists. > You can iterate over the characters in a string if you want, though. > > On 12/21/08, Tiago Katcipis <katci...@inf.ufsc.br> wrote: > > i forgot, this might help you > > > > > http://docs.python.org/tutorial/inputoutput.html#reading-and-writing-files > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Tiago Katcipis <katci...@inf.ufsc.br> > > wrote: > > > i believe that the following should work > > > > > > file1 = open(fileO, 'r') > > > re.findall ('some_text', file1.read()) > > > > > > readlines returns a list with lists inside, where every list is a line > of > > the text. The read function returns the entire file as one string, so it > > should work to what you are wanting to do. > > > > > > best regards > > > > > > Katcipis > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:02 AM, ppaarrkk <simon_...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > The following works : > > > > > > > > file1 = open (file0, "r") > > > > > > > > re.findall ( 'some_text', file1.readline() ) > > > > > > > > > > > > But this doesn't : > > > > > > > > re.findall ( 'some_text', file1.readlines() ) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How do I use grep for a whole text file, not just a single string ? > > > > -- > > > > View this message in context: > > > http://www.nabble.com/Equivalent-of-grep-in-python-tp21111356p21111356.html > > > > Sent from the Python - tutor mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > "it might be a profitable thing to learn Java, but it has no > intellectual > > value whatsoever" Alexander Stepanov > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > "it might be a profitable thing to learn Java, but it has no intellectual > > value whatsoever" Alexander Stepanov > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > > > -- "it might be a profitable thing to learn Java, but it has no intellectual value whatsoever" Alexander Stepanov
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