Read a data from text file (Notepad)

[Leonzxd]

Yes, there is. This is what the assignment asks for. To store the countries in a list and the capitals in another list. Before the loop create two lists called for example 'countries' and 'capitals' and in every iteration append rec[0] to the 'countries' and rec[1] to the 'capitals'. But why 'rec'? Why not:

country, capital = line.split(',')

You are asking if there is a way to store the countries in a list. Do you know the append method? You create a list called foo and is empty. Then you can store something in it using its append method.

foo.append('A')

I do not know the append method as you suggested.
Is it a storing method?
But now since you said, I will try and later share the code whether successful or not.

Thank you once again

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Yes, there is. This is what the assignment asks for. To store the countries in a list and the capitals in another list.
Before the loop create two lists called for example 'countries' and 'capitals' and in every iteration append rec[0] to the 'countries' and rec[1] to the 'capitals'. But why 'rec'? Why not:

country, capital = line.split(',')

You are asking if there is a way to store the countries in a list. Do you know the append method? You create a list called foo and is empty. Then you can store something in it using its append method.

foo.append('A')

print("No.\tCountries\t\t\t   Capitals\n ")
f = open(r'C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Notepad_Read\countries.txt')
count = 0
foo = [""]

data = f.readlines()

for line in data:
    
    line = line.rstrip('\n')
    countries, capitals = line.split(',') #Changed 
    count = count + 1   
    
    print("{0:1}\t{1:26}\t {2:24}".format(count,countries,capitals))
    
    
    foo.append(countries) #Not sure how to store the countries inside here
    
while True:
    line = str(input("Enter a country name (x to Exit): "))
    if line == 'x':
        break
    elif line == countries:
        print ("The capital of {0} is{1}".format(countries,capitals))
    else:
        print("The country is not in the list. Please try again.")
    
f.close()

Is this how I should do to make an empty list from the foo?
It still couldn't read any countries except for the last one.