Recalling Lists

[texas22]

If you have a text file that say has a list of 1000 plus words is there a way that you can recall that file without having to type the whole list out word by word and which will also allow you to once recalled sort the list and do other things to it

[ilikepython]

If you have a text file that say has a list of 1000 plus words is there a way that you can recall that file without having to type the whole list out word by word and which will also allow you to once recalled sort the list and do other things to it

What do you mean? Is it something like this?:

text.txt

word1, word2, word3 ...,
word4, word5, word6 ...
 

inFile = file("test.txt")
wordlist = [word.strip() for word in inFile.read().split(",")]
wordlist.sort()
 

[bartonc]

If you have a text file that say has a list of 1000 plus words is there a way that you can recall that file without having to type the whole list out word by word and which will also allow you to once recalled sort the list and do other things to it

Yep. Presuming that each word is on its own line followed by some sort of line-terminator (new-line):

fileName = r"C:\this\is\a\path\theFile.txt"
# I just make up variable names, you can use you own
inputFile = open(fileName)
wordList = inputFile.readlines()
inputFile.close()
wordList.sort()
 
# Writing is just as easy, just open a file in (w)rite mode
fileName = "whatever"
outputFile = open(fileName, "w")
outputFile.writelines(wordList)
outputFile.close()

Which would, of course, keep the new-line chrs with each word.