Problem stripping line feeds

[Roel Schroeven]

Robert Oschler wrote:

> I am using the following function to try and strip both carraige returns and
> line feeds, ASCII 13 and 10 respectively, from a string.  It doesn't seem to
> be working:
> 
> x = filter(lambda c: c not in "\012\015", string.strip(x)) # octal version
> 
> I also tried:
> 
> x = filter(lambda c: c not in "\r\n", string.strip(x)) # escape char.
> version
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

I don't know, it seems to work for me:

 >>> import string
 >>> x = """foo
bar"""
 >>> x
'foo\nbar'
 >>> x = filter(lambda c: c not in "\r\n", string.strip(x))
 >>> x
'foobar'

Exactly what happens when you try it?

You could also take the regular expression approach:

 >>> import re
 >>> x = 'foo\nbar\rbaz'
 >>> x
'foo\nbar\rbaz'
 >>> x = re.sub('\n|\r', '', x.strip())
 >>> x
'foobarbaz'

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Roel Schroeven