Question

I wanted to see if the load words function would work in python 3.2, the code is below, and the text file is in the same folder as the code.

def load_words():
print("Loading word list from file...")
# inFile: file
inFile = open(WORDLIST_FILENAME, 'r', 0)
# wordlist: list of strings
wordlist = []
for line in inFile:
wordlist.append(line.strip().lower())
print(" ", len(wordlist), "words loaded.")
return wordlist

Yet all I get in return is the error message:
builtins.ValueError: can't have unbuffered text I/O

Answer 1

Change 'r' to 'rb', I believe.

Answer 2

in the inFile?

Answer 3

In the text file given for problem set 3, the text file provided has no spaces between it's words. I think this will mess up the whole entire process, right?

Answer 4

Yes, in the inFile.

Answer 5

As for the text file, yes, you're absolutely right. Go download the solution file and steal the text file from there. And don't peek at anything else. :)

Answer 6

Thanks