[Chits01]

Hello, How may I read a text file word by word. All documentation I have seen so far refers to reading line and full documents scans. I have a text file with ordered records of name, surname and a key. How do I pickup the key for further processing?

[Amadeus]

Once you've read a line into a string, you can use the split or rsplit functions using a space as a delimiter to return a list of the individual words from that line. You could also read the whole file into one string, and do the split.

[velcrobandits]

f = open(filename,"r");
lines = f.readlines();
for i in lines:
thisline = i.split(" ");
#this line is an array of words in a given line. you have split the line which #was a string into an array of words cuz you split the string every time you encountered a space.

[samuraisam]

f = open('myfile.txt', 'r')
all_words = map(lambda l: l.split(" "), f.readlines())

Then iterate through all_words.

-Sam