python read file

• read entire file at once 
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7409780/reading-entire-file-in-python
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• with open('Path/to/file', 'r') as content_file:
•     content = content_file.read()
• line by line
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3277503/how-to-read-a-file-line-by-line-into-a-list-with-python

• with open(fname) as f:
      content = f.readlines()

• Trimming a string in Python
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/761804/trimming-a-string-in-python
• .strip()
• char at
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8848294/how-to-get-char-from-string-by-index
• just use []
• Indexing, Slicing
• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_lists.htm
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• L = ['spam', 'Spam', 'SPAM!']

  Python Expression	Results	Description
  L[2]	'SPAM!'	Offsets start at zero
  L[-2]	'Spam'	Negative: count from the right
  L[1:]	['Spam', 'SPAM!']	Slicing fetches sections

• tokenize
• .split()