Grant,
> My question is, is it possible to strip out multiple characters at once?
Kent answered that bit.
> started = False
> for line in file('mylist.py'):
> if 'jobs' in line and not started:
> ...
> if ']' not in line and started:
>
jobs.append(line.strip('...'))
> else: print "break"
Are you sure you only want to print break? If so the code will
continue processing lines after the end of your list. My break
command will exit the loop when it finds the ] character. If you
don't want to use break you could set started to False again.
Alan G.
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