'''
Created on Sept 24, 2017

@author: YOUR NAME HERE
'''


def process(name):
    # name is a file, returns a list of strings 
    #    from the file
    f = open(name)
    answer = []
    for line in f:
        answer.append(line.strip())
    return answer


if __name__ == '__main__':
    filename = "athletes.txt"
    data = process(filename)
    print "THE DATA IS:"
    for item in data:
        print item
    print