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Top Forums Programming Listing Option Menu Choices from Text File Post 302959306 by balajesuri on Saturday 31st of October 2015 11:35:59 AM
Old 10-31-2015
When you do list = f.read(), the entire content of file is read into list as a string. And as you know, python iterates over a string variable as if it is an array. And list here is an array of characters and hence your output is all characters one below the other. Here's how you intended to do it:

Code:
f = open("sitelist.txt", "r")
list = []
for line in f:
    list.append(line)
f.close()

And please always remember to close the filehandle after use.
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XmTextSetSource(3X)													       XmTextSetSource(3X)

NAME

       XmTextSetSource - A Text function that sets the source of the widget

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Xm/Text.h>

       void XmTextSetSource (widget, source, top_character, cursor_position)
	       Widget widget;
	       XmTextSource source;
	       XmTextPosition top_character;
	       XmTextPosition cursor_position;

DESCRIPTION

       XmTextSetSource	sets  the source of the Text widget.  Text widgets can share sources of text so that editing in one widget is reflected in
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       Setting a new text source destroys the old text source if no other Text widgets are using that source. To replace a text source but keep it
       for later use, create an unmanaged Text widget and set its source to the text source you want to keep.  Specifies the Text widget ID Speci-
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