read in from file

[sixtyfootersdude]

Hi all,

trying to write a program that will read a file in like:

python myprog < inputFile

the program needs to store each line a an entry in a list.

li = []


for i in range(0,9): #<- these must be the correct range.    
	temp = raw_input("")
	li.append(temp)

This code works but you have to hard code how many lines there will be (see comment). I need my program to terminate at the EOF. I have looked around for a couple hours but havent had enormous luck finding anything.

Tryed entering in

if(temp==\0):
      break

and similar but not having to much luck. Thanks for reading!

JS

[bvdet]

Iteration on a file object will terminate when the EOF character is reached.[code=Python]f = open('file.txt' )
for i, line in enumerate(f):
print 'Line number %d' % i
## do more stuff

f.close()
[/code]

[sixtyfootersdude]

Thanks bvdet .

For anyone with a similar problem as me this is the way I ended up doing it:

def readWords():
	while 1:
		line = raw_input()
		if line != "":
			listOfWords.append(line);
		else:
			break
#End read words method

[sixtyfootersdude]

Ooops. The previous code does not detect EOF (well it does sometimes, just not not always...)

Regardless, this code works:

# reads words from the input file
def readWords():
	jake = sys.stdin
	listOfWords= jake.readlines()
	listOfWords = [i[:-1] for i in listOfWords]
	return listOfWords