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I'm having issues in reading a file into a list, When I do it only creates one item from the entire file rather than reading each element into its own field. I'm using n as the thing to strip on, but I can't get it to work correctly.

temp = open('drugs')

drugs = [temp.read().strip("n")]

temp.close

Result:

['40 Stimpakn53 Mentatsn87 Buffoutn109 Rad-Xn125 Boozen260 Jet Antidoten311 Roentgen Rumn424 Monument Chunkn480 Bonus +1 Agilityn525 Hypo n48 RadAwayn71 Fruitn103 Iguana-on-a-stickn110 Psychon144 Super Stimpakn273 Healing Powdern334 Poisonn469 Rot Gutn481 Bonus +1 Intelligence n49 Antidoten81 Iguana-on-a-stickn106 Nuka-Colan124 Beern259 Jetn310 Gamma Gulp Beern378 Cookien473 Mutated Toen482 Bonus +1 Strength ']

drugs.strip('n')



Traceback (most recent call last):

   File "seek", line 18, in <module>

     print drugs.strip('n')

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'strip'

file.read() reads entire file's contents, unless you specify max length. What you must be meaning is .readlines(). But you can go even more idiomatic with a list comprehension:

with open('drugs') as temp_file:

  drugs = [line.rstrip('n') for line in temp_file]

The with statement will take care of closing the file.

This incorporates the strip directly into the for statement.

with open('drugs', 'r') as f:

  for line in map(lambda line: line.rstrip('n'), f):

    print line

Or, if you know you don't need any space before or after text on a line, you can use this.

import string



with open('drugs', 'r') as f:

  for line in map(string.strip, f):

    print line