Question

for word in wordStr:
    word = word.strip()
print word

When the above code analyzes a .txt with thousands of words, why does it only return the last word in the .txt file? What do I need to do to get it to return all the words in the text file?

Answer 1

that is because the variable word is the current word, when finish the file, is the last one:

def stuff():
    words = []
    for word in wordStr:
        words.append(word.strip())
    print words
    return words