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All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation
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Representative Line: What a Character
Python's "batteries included" approach means that a lot of common tasks have high-level convenience functions for them. For example, if you want to read all the lines from a file into an array (list, in Python), you could do something like:
with open(filename) as f: lines = f.readlines()Easy peasy. Of course, because it's so easy, there are other options.
For example, you can just convert the file directly to a list: lines = list(f). Or you can iterate across the file directly, e.g.:
with open(filename) as f: for line in f: # do stuffOf course, that's fine for plain old text files. But we frequently use text files which are structured in some fashion, like a CSV file. No worries, though, as Python has a csv library built in, which makes it easy to handle these files too; especially useful because "writing a CSV parser yourself" is one of those tasks that sounds easy until you hit the first edge case, and then you realize you've made a terrible mistake.
Now, it's important to note that CSV usually is expressed as a "comma separated values" file, but the initialism is actually "character separated values". And, as Sally's co-worker realized, newlines are characters, and thus every text file is technically a CSV file.
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Microsoft Trims More CPUs From Windows 11 Compatibility List
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Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes' Fraud Convictions Upheld
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Dutch Software Firm Bird To Leave Europe Due To Onerous Regulations
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Perplexity Teases AI Web Browser Called Comet
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AT&T and Verizon Connect First Cellphone-To-Satellite Video Calls
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Anthropic Launches the World's First 'Hybrid Reasoning' AI Model
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Microsoft Quietly Launches Ad-Supported Version of Office Apps for Windows
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AI Reshapes Corporate Workforce as Companies Halt Traditional Hiring
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Ellison's Half-Billion-Dollar Quest To Change Farming Has Been a Bust
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More Than Half of Countries Are Ignoring Biodiversity Pledges
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Software Firm Bird To Leave Europe Due To Onerous Regulations in AI Era, Says CEO
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Microsoft Dropped Some AI Data Center Leases, TD Cowen Says
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Pre-Product AI 'Company' Now Valued at $30 Billion
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Google To Eliminate SMS Authentication in Gmail, Implement QR Codes
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Should Climate Change Be Acknowledged In Movies?
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Apple Announces $500 Billion US Investment Plan, To Hire 20,000 People
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