"Sean Carolan" <scaro...@gmail.com> wrote
> The first two lines are redundant you only need the last one.
I should have clarified, the "if line.startswith" part was used to
break out of the previous for loop, which was used to import the
other, shorter strings.
Thats fair enough if you are doing something with those
shorter strings. But if not the whole loop is redundant,
you only need the split. Your original post did not mention
any processing of the earlier lines.
But even if you were you could still use the split() first
then process the first element in a loop and assign the
second element to your variable:
stuff, store = theFile.read().split('notes\n')
for line in stuff.split():
# process thing
That way there is no need for a break test.
HTH.,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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