How would I read only the first word of each line of a text file?

Question

I wanted to know how I could read ONLY the FIRST WORD of each line in a text file. I tried various codes and tried altering codes but can only manage to read whole lines from a

Answer 1

You are using split at the wrong point, try:

for line in f:
    QuizList.append(line.split(None, 1)[0]) # add only first word