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On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 12:54:16 -0700 (PDT), subhabangalore@gmail.com
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> But I am bit intrigued with another question,
> 
> suppose I say:
>   file_open=open("/python32/doc1.txt","r")
>   file=a1.read().lower()
>   for line in file:
>        line_word=line.split()
> 
> This works fine. But if I print it would be printed continuously.

	"This works fine" -- Really?

1)	Why are you storing data files in the install directory of your
Python interpreter?

2)	"a1" is undefined -- you should get an exception on that line which
makes the following irrelevant; replacing "a1" with "file_open" leads
to...

3)	"file" is a) a predefined function in Python, which you have just
shadowed and b) a poor name for a string containing the contents of a
file

4) 	"for line in file", since "file" is a string, will iterate over EACH
CHARACTER, meaning (since there is nothing to split) that "line_word" is
also just a single character.

	for line in file.split("\n"):

will split the STRING into logical lines (assuming a new-line character
splits the lines) and permit the subsequent split to pull out wordS
("line_word" is misleading, as to will contain a LIST of words from the
line).

> I like to store in some variable,so that I may print line of my choice and manipulate them at my choice.
> Is there any way out to this problem?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Subhabrata Banerjee
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Discussion on some Code Issues subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2012-07-04 16:21 -0700
  Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-05 00:02 +0000
  Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-07-04 17:08 -0700
  Re: Discussion on some Code Issues subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2012-07-04 20:25 -0700
    Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-07-05 09:30 +0200
      Re: Discussion on some Code Issues subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2012-07-05 07:33 -0700
      Re: Discussion on some Code Issues subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2012-07-05 07:33 -0700
        Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-07-06 09:35 +0200
  Re: Discussion on some Code Issues subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2012-07-07 12:54 -0700
    Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-07-07 16:51 -0400
      Re: Discussion on some Code Issues subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2012-07-07 22:42 -0700
        Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-08 18:03 +1000
          Re: Discussion on some Code Issues subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2012-07-08 10:05 -0700
            Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-09 03:17 +1000
              Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-08 14:17 -0400
                Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-09 07:54 +1000
                Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-09 00:57 +0000
                Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-09 18:41 +1000
                Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-09 12:24 +0000
                Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-10 00:47 +1000
                Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-07-09 12:49 -0400
              Re: Discussion on some Code Issues subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2012-07-16 07:17 -0700
              Re: Discussion on some Code Issues subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2012-07-16 07:17 -0700
            Re: Discussion on some Code Issues MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-07-08 19:27 +0100
          Re: Discussion on some Code Issues subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2012-07-08 10:05 -0700
        Re: Discussion on some Code Issues Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-07-08 15:07 -0400
      Re: Discussion on some Code Issues subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2012-07-07 22:42 -0700

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