Re: Problem with loading textfiles into dictionaries.

[Steven Bethard]

Kartic wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following on 1/30/2005 7:43 PM:
Hello,
I want to do the following:
def do_load(self, arg):
sitefile = file('sitelist', 'r+', 1)
while True:
siteline = sitefile.readline()
site_rawlist = siteline.split()
sitelist[site_rawlist[0]] = site_rawlist[1:]
if len(siteline) == 0:
break
You should move "if len(siteline) == 0" part right after your readline. 
The way you have done it really does not help.
Or better yet, don't use "if len(siteline) == 0" -- use "if siteline". 
See this an other examples of dubious Python:

http://www.python.org/moin/DubiousPython
Specifically, see the section on Overly Verbose Conditionals.
Steve
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