Crete list of words from text file

Question

Questions Create a list called emotions that contains the first word of every line in emotion_words.txt.

emotions=[]  
with open("emotion_words.txt","r+") as f:    
    for line in f:    
       emotions.append(line.strip()[0])  

Any Suggestions on where I have gone wrong... I know it has something to do with that last line

Answer 1

As suggested in the comments you need to read the content of the file and then split the sentence using the split method of strings like this:

emotions=[]
with open("emotion_words.txt","r+") as f:
    for line in f.readlines():
       emotions.append(line.split()[0].strip())

Answer 2

I assume you mean

emotions.append(line.split()[0].strip())

otherwise you're saving the first letter of each line, not the first word.