Splitting elements on a line?

[Max Russell]

P.S:
sorry about the whole "c:\" business. Protype is on
Windows. Boo Hiss.

 --- Max Russell <max_russell2000 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: 
> Hello-
> If I have a file made up of lines like this:
> 
> one two three
> four five six
> seven eight nine
> 
> how can I read the individual items into a lit, so
> that I do not get each list item consisting of
> something like:
> "one two three"
> 
> Currently I have this:
> import os, os.path, random
> filename = ("C:\list.txt")
> file = open(filename,"r")
> word_list = file.readlines()
> file.close()
> print word_list
> 
> # output from this program has format ['one two
> three\n', 'four five six']
> # therefore- need to split each item into individual
> compenents
> # also- need to remove whitespace and newline
> character
> 
> So:
> 
> Would I perform a split after all of the above?
> 
> Would I be better performing the split before
> reading
> the items into the list?
> 
> thanks
> Max
> 
> 
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