David,
You are processing a text file. It is your job to treat it as a file
comprised of lists. I think what you are saying is that each line in the
text file is a list. In that case
for line in fileobject:
listline = list(line)
Now, listline is a list of the text items in line.
Hope this helps.
Robert Berman
David Holland wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to create a program where I open a file full of lists and
process them.
However when the program does not recognize the lists as lists.
Here is the relevant code :-
def open_filedef():
text_file =open ("voteinp.txt","r")
lines = text_file.readlines()
for line in lines:
print line
print line[0]
text_file.close()
And an example of the type of text :-
['a','b','c']
['e','d','f']
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
David Holland
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