import sys from string import strip lineCount = 0 lengths = [] alltexts = [] for line in open("TALK1.txt"): lineCount+=1 line = strip(line) lengths.append(len(line)) alltexts.append(line) off = lineCount for line in open("TALK2.txt"): lineCount+=1 line = strip(line) lengths.append(len(line)) alltexts.append(line) tmpNo = 0 for line in alltexts: print ("L"+str(tmpNo)+' dta "'+line+'"') tmpNo+= 1 l="" for i in range(0,lineCount): l+="