Simple file reading code

[girish_sahani]

this doesnt work when the file is in the same directory as the .py file.

def get_colocations(filename):
           sentences = open(filename).read().split("\n")
           colocations = []
          for sent in sentences:
                colocations.append(sent)
                return colocations

def main():
    get_colocations("colocations.txt")
    print "Colocations are",colocations

Can anyone help????????

[bumsfeld]

Indentations are the bread and butter of Python. Yours are all messed up! Did you mix tabs and spaces in your code? Avoid the mix!

This is corrected code:

def get_colocations(filename):
    sentences = open(filename).read().split("\n")
    colocations = []
    for sent in sentences:
        colocations.append(sent)
    return colocations

def main():
    colocations = get_colocations("colocations.txt")  # !!!!!!!!!
    print "Colocations are",colocations

main()

[girish_sahani]

thanks a lot bumsfield....i need to indent my whole program :(
EDIT:i tried the above code but it doesnt work..the program compiles but doesnt return the colocations list...the colocations.txt file is in the same directory as this file..what could be the error?

[girish_sahani]

finally it worked....gives the right output :)