Python reading whitespace-separated file lines as separate lines

Question

This is on Windows Server 2008 R2. I have a file of inputs, one input per line. Some of the inputs have spaces in them. I\'m trying to use the below simple code, but it separate

Answer 1

EDIT: This is the fix

import os
f = open("out.txt", "r")
os.chdir("base location")
for line in file:
    os.system("mkdir {}".format(line.strip().replace(" ", r"\ ")))

The problem is that mkdir interprets its input as a list of directories to make, unless you escape the spaces.