getting rid of EOL character ?

[Steven Howe]

stef wrote:
> hello,
>
> In the previous language I used,
> when reading a line by readline, the EOL character was removed.
>
> Now I'm reading a text-file with CR+LF at the end of each line,
>     Datafile = open(filename,'r') 
>     line = Datafile.readline()
>
> now this gives an extra empty line
>     print line
>
> and what I expect that should be correct, remove CR+LF,
> gives me one character too much removed
>     print line[,-2]
>
> while this gives what I need ???
>     print line[,-1]
>
> Is it correct that the 2 characters CR+LF are converted to 1 character ?
> Is there a more automatic way to remove the EOL from the string ?
>
> thanks,
> Stef Mientki
>   
 >>> abcd = 'abcdedff . \n'
 >>> abcd
'abcdedff . \n'
 >>> print abcd
abcdedff .

 >>>* from string import strip*
 >>> print abcd.strip()
abcdedff .
 >>> a = abcd.strip()
 >>> a
'abcdedff .'
 >>>

sph
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