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

I'd go for the str.split and similar approaches, but for completness here's one that uses a combination of mmap and re if you needed to extract more complicated data:

import mmap, re

with open('quizzes.txt') as fin:
    mf = mmap.mmap(fin.fileno(), 0, access=mmap.ACCESS_READ)
    wordlist = re.findall('^(\w+)', mf, flags=re.M)