cut off \n

[Boštjan Jerko]

What i do is:

line.replace("\n","")

B.

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 10:53:47 -0500
sismex01 at hebmex.com wrote:

> > From: Tom [mailto:llafba at gmx.net]
> > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:51 AM
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have to read data from a file to a list. Unfortunately most of the
> > 
> > data that I read into my little list ends with a linefeed \n.
> > Right now I get rid of this by just cutting off the last 
> > character. (a = > l[:-1]).
> >
> 
> This is *almost* the correct way to do it :-)
> 
> >
> > My problem is that sometimes the last line of the file has a \n and 
> > sometimes not. With the method above I sometimes cut off parts of my
> > 
> > string. So it would be much nicer if I can find out if the data does
> > 
> > have a \n and then cut it off.
> >
> 
> You could do somethint like:
> 
>     if line.endswith("\n"):
>         line = line[:-1]
> 
> or, if trailing whitespace is not significant (you don't mention it),
> you can also do something like:
> 
>     line = line.rstrip()
> 
> or, if leading whitespace is not significant either, you can also
> trim all leading and trailing whitespace, thusly:
> 
>     line = line.strip()
> 
> 
> > 
> > This is probably a very common problem but I am pretty new to
> > Phython and could find anything useful with google. :-(
> > 
> > Thanks, Tom
> >
> 
> Perl has yet-another-kinda-useful-function called "chomp", which
> deletes a line ending from a string, only if it's found.  Alas,
> python is chompless, not that I'm complaining, the above code
> is what I use all the time.
> 
> -gca
> 
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