Looping over a text file list with python

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Alright, so my assignment is to take a text file, that would have 4 entries per line, those bein

Answer 1

You are using these lines:

data = file.readlines()
for tmp in data:

which already splits your data into lines, and iterates through them. That means that this line [data2= [word.rstrip("\n") for word in data]] is setting data2 to be the first line EVERY TIME, which renders the original for loop useless.

Try instead:

tmp = tmp.split()

which will split each line as you iterate, you can now call tmp as a list, like you called first except it will reflect the values for each line.

You could also change your original for loop to:

for tmp in file:

since file objects in python are generators that yield each line (this saves you some memory space)