How do I print the 1st word of each line in a txt file?

Question

I'm trying to write some code that reads a text file and prints the 1st letter of each line. My current code is:

f=open("testfile1.txt","r")

for line in f:

    words=line.split()

    print(words[0])

With this, the strings should be split into the individual words, but when I run the code, I get an error message saying list index out of range. I have tried the solutions of similar questions people had on the same topic, but when I use the same code, I get this error. Can anyone explain why this is happening, and how I can fix it? Thanks

Answer 1

Looks like there are few empty lines, try this, it will work:

f=open("testfile1.txt","r")

for line in f:

    words=line.split()

    if words:

        print(words[0])

f.close()

Using, with open :

with open("testfile1.txt", "r") as f:

    for line in f:

        words = line.split()

        if words:

            print(words[0])