Question

I’m having trouble with the function below. It seems to split the file fine but then only returns it as one element

Function:

def splitRoute():
  route = []
  for line in open("route.txt","r").readlines():
    line = line.replace("\r","")
    line = line.replace("\n","")
    line = string.split(line, '>')
    route.append(line) 
  return route

Output:

[['B', 'F']]

route.txt contents:

B>F

Is it only returning one element because there is only one line in the file?
I have another function that splits another file into a 7×7 list that works fine but is that only reaching all seven elements across because it has 7 lines?

Answer 1

Why are you replacing newlines? Just split the string:

def splitRoute():
  route = []

  for line in open('route.txt', 'r'):
    route.append(line.strip().split('>')) 

  return route