I have a text file called "test", and I would like to create a list in Python and print it. I have the following code, but it does not print a list of words; it prints the whole document in one line.
file = open("test", 'r')
lines = file.readlines()
my_list = [line.split(' , ')for line in open ("test")]
print (my_list)
You could do
my_list = open("filename.txt").readlines()
When you do this:
file = open("test", 'r')
lines = file.readlines()
Lines is a list of lines. If you want to get a list of words for each line you can do:
list_word = []
for l in lines:
list_word.append(l.split(" "))
I believe you are trying to achieve something like this:
data = [word.split(',') for word in open("test", 'r').readlines()]
It would also help if you were to specify what type of text file you are trying to read as there are several modules(i.e. csv) that would produce the result in a much simpler way.
As pointed out, you may also strip a new line(depends on what line ending you are using) and you'll get something like this:
data = [word.strip('\n').split(',') for word in open("test", 'r').readlines()]
This produces a list of lines with a list of words.
