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Re: reading from a txt file

From Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: reading from a txt file
Date 2015-11-26 20:50 +0000
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On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:34:36 -0800, vincentypedro 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

How do you define a string? Is it just a line with the spaces removed?

>>> "".join("    this is a test    string my     friends    ".split(" "))
'thisisateststringmyfriends'

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Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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reading from a txt file vincentypedro@gmail.com - 2015-11-26 12:34 -0800
  Re: reading from a txt file Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 20:50 +0000
  Re: reading from a txt file Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 14:04 -0700
  Re: reading from a txt file Gary Herron <gherron@digipen.edu> - 2015-11-26 13:01 -0800
  Re: reading from a txt file Pedro Vincenty <vincentypedro@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 17:24 -0800
    Re: reading from a txt file Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-26 21:44 -0500

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