python - Adding multi-lines into one list? -

i have multi-lines of emails , need couple of things:

stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za louis@media.berkeley.edu zqian@umich.edu rjlowe@iupui.edu zqian@umich.edu rjlowe@iupui.edu  ... etc 

1. i need put them in 1 list: ['stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za','louis@media.berkeley.edu','louis@media.berkeley.edu'..etc]

2. need figure out email repetitive within list, that's how startred code , hope complete ended code!

   fname = raw_input("enter file name: ") if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt" fh = open(fname) lines = [] count = 0 # next step line in fh:     line = line.rstrip()     if not line.startswith("from ") : continue     x = line.split()     emails = x[1]  #print y  maxapperence = 0  famous = none mail in emails:     count = emails.count(mail)     if count > maxapperence:         famous = mail print famous  apparence = dict() mail in set(emails):     apparence[mail] = emails.count(mail) print apparence] 

   out put :

   stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za louis@media.berkeley.edu zqian@umich.edu rjlowe@iupui.edu zqian@umich.edu rjlowe@iupui.edu cwen@iupui.edu cwen@iupui.edu gsilver@umich.edu gsilver@umich.edu zqian@umich.edu gsilver@umich.edu wagnermr@iupui.edu zqian@umich.edu antranig@caret.cam.ac.uk gopal.ramasammycook@gmail.com david.horwitz@uct.ac.za david.horwitz@uct.ac.za david.horwitz@uct.ac.za david.horwitz@uct.ac.za stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za louis@media.berkeley.edu louis@media.berkeley.edu ray@media.berkeley.edu cwen@iupui.edu cwen@iupui.edu cwen@iupui.edu 

if you've got file contains email addresses:

import collections filename = '' c = collections.counter(map(str.strip, open(filename).readlines())) print(c.most_common(10)) # dumb example of possible output format