Code to build a list z to contain all the first words in each line of a text file:
z=[] f=open('C:/atextfile.txt') for aLine in f: str=aLine a=str.split() z.append(a) I would like to work further with the list z once the file has been stripped, and the list is complete but am so clueless about Python and its curlybracelessness that I don't know when the for loop terminates. Obviously I don't want to write to the file after every line is read.
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