[sixtyfootersdude]

Hi all,

trying to write a program that will read a file in like:

python myprog < inputFile

the program needs to store each line a an entry in a list.

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2. li = []
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5. for i in range(0,9): #<- these must be the correct range.    
6.     temp = raw_input("")
7.     li.append(temp)
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This code works but you have to hard code how many lines there will be (see comment). I need my program to terminate at the EOF. I have looked around for a couple hours but havent had enormous luck finding anything.

Tryed entering in

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2. if(temp==\0):
3.       break
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and similar but not having to much luck. Thanks for reading!

JS

[bvdet]

Iteration on a file object will terminate when the EOF character is reached.

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1. f = open('file.txt')
2. for i, line in enumerate(f):
3.     print 'Line number %d' % i
4.     ## do more stuff
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6. f.close()
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[sixtyfootersdude]

Thanks bvdet .

For anyone with a similar problem as me this is the way I ended up doing it:

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2. def readWords():
3.     while 1:
4.         line = raw_input()
5.         if line != "":
6.             listOfWords.append(line);
7.         else:
8.             break
9. #End read words method
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[sixtyfootersdude]

Ooops. The previous code does not detect EOF (well it does sometimes, just not not always...)

Regardless, this code works:

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2. # reads words from the input file
3. def readWords():
4.     jake = sys.stdin
5.     listOfWords= jake.readlines()
6.     listOfWords = [i[:-1] for i in listOfWords]
7.     return listOfWords
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