On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:27 PM, seektime <michael.j.kra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:07:29 PM UTC-7, Chris Rebert wrote: <snip> >> P.S.: I'm guessing you obtained `L` from file.readlines() or similar; >> it is worth noting for future reference that the readlines() method is >> considered somewhat deprecated. > > Thanks to everyone lots of great comments are actionable suggestions. > > My intension is to used the numpy/scipy packages to solve the task at hand. I > agree that there's no point in loading a file into a format which only needs > to be converted right after loading. But I'm new to Python the f.readline(s) > command, according to the 2.7.3 tutorial and manual, is pretty much all there > is for file i/o. If, as you indicated, f.readlines() is deprecated then what > should I use instead? I'm using ver. 2.6 on Linux (it's a bit dated, I know).
Just iterate over the file directly using a for-loop (e.g. `for line in some_file:`). Each iteration yields one line of the file. I used a very minor variation of this approach in my code (a list comprehension is just syntax sugar for a for-loop). Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
