"takayuki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > fin = open('animals.txt') > for line in fin:
You can write this as: for line in open('animals.txt'): #do stuff Of course, you can't explicitly close the file this way, but that probably doesn't matter. Another way, I think, is to wrap the for loops in this: with open('animals.txt') as file: #for loop stuff here -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list