"Jeff Peery" <jeffpe...@seametrics.com> wrote

Import sting

Its lower case import and I've no idea what sting is! :-)
If its meant to be string you don't need it.

delimiter = ‘.’
f = open('words.txt', "r")
lines = f.readlines()
for line in lines:
           line_items = string.split(line,delimiter)

You don't need the readlines(), just do

with open('words.txt', "r") as f:
         line_items = [line.split(',') for line in f]

The string methods are builtin and the string
module is really only needed for backwatds
compatibility these days.

Also this code returns a list of lists of words.
The original code threw away the words after each line.
If you want a single list of words the code would
look more like:

with open('words.txt', "r") as f:
       for line in f:
             line_items += line.split(',')

To the OP: If you want to get rid of the " signs
around your words you can use the strip()
method too.


HTH,

--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/


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