Question

Hi im trying to create a list adding to it via a for loop reading line by line from a txt file. Im getting a syntax error on the list but am unsure about how to fix the problem ???

import re
file = open("text.txt","r")
text = file.readlines()
file.close()

line_count=0

for line in text:
    User_Input_list[] += [] + line.split()
    line_count += 1

the problem seems to be on the second last line with the declaration of the list

Answer 1

Do it like this:

input = []
line_count = 0
with open("text.txt","r") as file:
    for line in file:
        input.extend(line.split())
        line_count += 1