At 07:20 PM 10/3/2005, Craig MacFarlane wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Is there a way to make line continuation work with
>the readlines function?
>
>i.e.
Do you mean e.g.?
> this is \
> one line.
I assume the above is a 2 line file you wish to read using a file object's
readlines method. There is nothing native to help you. I suggest you use
the read method, then remove any sequence of \ followed by \n then split at \n.
input = file('c:/foo.txt').read()
input2 = input.replace('\\\n', '')
input3 = input2.split('\n')
Now you have a list of "logical" lines. Note there are no \n at the end.
readlines leaves the \n at the end of the lines.
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