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Asked: 2026-05-30T06:42:45+00:00

What I’m hoping for is something like this: Input: a aa b bb Output:

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What I’m hoping for is something like this:

Input:

a
aa
b
bb

Output:

<li>a</li>  
<li>aa</li>  
<li>b</li>  
<li>bb</li>

So I try it in python, right:

file = open('/Users/Shannon/Desktop/add_tags.txt')


while 1:
    line = file.readline()
    if not line:
        break
    else: 
        print "<li>" + line + "</li> \n"

And the result is a garbled mess like so:

</li> e sleep patterns when possibleresult in positive outcomes

Then I try it in php:

<html><body>

<?php
$fin = fopen('add_tags.txt', 'r');

while(!feof($fin))
    {
        $input_string = fgets($fin);
        $output_string = "<li>".$input_string."</li>";
        echo $output_string;
    }

?>

But the li tags render as bullet points, naturally. So I added backslashes to escape the brackets, but that appeared to have no effect. Then I changed “(lessthan) li (greaterthan)” to “x” just to see what happened – nothing. Still a bulleted list. I have no idea. Something tells me that switching to java won’t solve my problems. Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here’s the python solution in two lines:

    for line in open('tmp.txt'):
  print '<li>' + line.rstrip() +'</li>'

    And two comments:

    1. The ‘for line in…’ style is much cleaner and easier (open(filename) returns a python generator, yielding one line at a time).

    2. To get rid of trailing ‘\n’ in the end of the lines, I used rstrip(). This also gets rid of extra spaces at the end of the line (which won’t make any difference in the HTML, anyway).

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