Reading a file and splitting at the same time

[Miguel Valenzue]

Is there a way to read and split it at the same time?
I currently use this code.

chooseFile = raw_input ("Type File Name:")
outputFile = raw_input ("Type File Output name with extension:")
 
myfile=open(chooseFile,'r')
myList =[]
myList = myfile.readlines()
 
splitList = []
 
for i in myList:
    splitList.append (i.split(';'))
 

It basically reads in a semicolon delimited file and splits it into a list.
But I think there may be a more elegant way to do this.

[bvdet]

You do not need to initialize the empty list "myList". If you create an open file object by assignment to an identifier, you should close it when you are done:myfile.close()
"splitList" can be created using a list comprehension:

splitList = [line.split(";") for line in open(chooseFile).readlines()]