Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:10:28 -0800, Spacebar265 wrote: > >> How would I do separate lines into words without scanning one character >> at a time? > > Scan a line at a time, then split each line into words. > > > for line in open('myfile.txt'): > words = line.split() > > > should work for a particularly simple-minded idea of words. > Or for a slightly less simple minded splitting you could try re.split:
>>> re.split("(\w+)", "The quick brown fox jumps, and falls over.")[1::2] ['The', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox', 'jumps', 'and', 'falls', 'over'] -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list