This will probably help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14676265/how-to-read-text-file-into-a-list-or-array-with-python
text_file = open("filename.dat", "r") lines = text_file.readlines() print lines print len(lines)text_file.close() Usually I like to consult officals docs though...Bye, Skybuck.
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