On May 9, 2:43 pm, HMS Surprise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [lst.append(list(line.split())) for line in file] > > Thanks, this is the direction I wanted to go, BUT I must use v2.2 so > the line above gives me the error: > > AttributeError: __getitem__ > > But the write format will be helpful.
(change to file.xreadlines(). Btw that snippet will fail miserably for most data). Instead, use pickle: import pickle pickle.dump(lst_of_lst, open('outfile', 'wb')) lst_of_lst = pickle.load(open('outfile', 'rb')) -Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list