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On 11/26/2015 12:34 PM, vincentypedro@gmail.com wrote:
> Hey, I'm wondering how to read individual strings in a text file.  I can read a text file by lines with .readlines() ,
> but I need to read specifically by strings, not including spaces.  Thanks in advance

Read the lines with readlines(), as you say, then split each line into 
whatever pieces you want with split (or with any of the many other 
string methods).

A minimal example (without readlines):
 >>> lines = ['a b c', 'aa bb cc']
 >>> for line in lines:
...   words = line.split()
...   print(words)
...
['a', 'b', 'c']
['aa', 'bb', 'cc']


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Dr. Gary Herron
Department of Computer Science
DigiPen Institute of Technology
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