I can't figure out how to handle user input as strings

Question

I'm really new to Python so I don't know much of the syntax. I'm trying to write a program that accepts words in separate lines and adds each word to an array. I tried using isalpha() to break the loop after all the words were inputted. But the loop would break even if it was a word. Please help! Edit: I'd also like to know how to get rid of the \n in the output.

import sys; args = sys.argv[1:]
import fileinput
words = []
for line in fileinput.input():
   if line.isalpha() == False:
    fileinput.close()
   words.append(line)
print (words)

Input: hello

Output: ['hello\n']

Answer 1

From the documentation for isalpha:

Return True if all characters in the string are alphabetic and there is at least one character, False otherwise.

A little work in IPython:

In [1]: 'hello\n'.isalpha()
Out[1]: False

In [2]: 'hello\n'.rstrip().isalpha()
Out[2]: True

I would fix the immediate problem with something like this:

for line in fileinput.input():
    line = line.rstrip()
    if line.isalpha() == False:
        fileinput.close()
    words.append(line)