Return a board read from open file board_file. The board file will contain one row of the board per line

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for a .txt looking like the below (already opened):

EFJAJCOWSS
SDGKSRFDFF
ASRJDUSKLK
HEANDNDJWA
ANSDNCNEOP
PMSNFHHEJE
JEPQLYNXDL

Return a board that will contain each row on a different line. Newlines are not included in the board. I have the below code:

def read_board(board_file):
    file = open(board_file, 'r')
    line = file.readline()
    newList = ''
    while line != '':
        newList = newList + line.strip('\n') + '\n'
        line = file.readline()
    return newList

The result is : 'EFJAJCOWSS\nSDGKSRFDFF\nASRJDUSKLK\nHEANDNDJWA\nANSDNCNEOP\nPMSNFHHEJE\nJEPQLYNXDL\n'

Any tips on how I can get this to list each row on a different line, as mentioned above? +'\n' doesn't do the trick...

What do you mean "cannot use print"? You get an error if you attempt to use it, or you are not allowed to use it? — mkrieger1, May 08 '17 at 10:01
Yeah, that's likely to be a bigger challenge than how to get these onto individual lines. Can you use the Python `logging` module and log to stdout? — bouteillebleu, May 08 '17 at 10:37
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2570269/output-alternatives-in-python may also be useful. — bouteillebleu, May 08 '17 at 10:38

Himanshu dua · Answer 1 · 2017-05-08T10:00:11.100

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file.readlines() gives list of lines

lst_lines = file.readlines()

lst_lines will be like: ['EFJAJCOWSS\n','SDGKSRFDFF\n'........]

Now you can iterate over lst_lines list with for loop line[0],line[1] is different line

for line in lst_lines:
  print(line)

edited May 08 '17 at 10:00

answered May 08 '17 at 09:48

Himanshu dua

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i forgot to mention, i cannot use print. would have been much easier if i could – marius May 08 '17 at 09:58

Return a board read from open file board_file. The board file will contain one row of the board per line

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