Newbie Question

[Moshe Zadka]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Arnaldo Riquelme wrote:

> Suppose I have a file name tick.tkr that looks like this
> 
> SUNW.
> MFST.
> FOO.
> SPAM.
> MOO.
> End_Of_File
> 
> I want to read the file into a list
> 
> myfile = open("tick.tkr", "r")
> mylist = myfile.readlines()
> 
> Now I have mylist with the contents of tick.tkr. "mylist" looks like this
> ['SUNW.\012', 'MSFT.\012', ..........'End_of_File/012']
> 
> How do I read the file into a list without getting the newline character, so
> I can accomplish this
> 
> for tic in mylist:
>     #create file tic.prn
> 
> I know the other P language has something like 'chop' or something like
> that, but I'm not going there.

Try "string.strip". In your case, it should do fine.
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