Problem with print and output to screen

Dave Angel d at davea.name
Tue Dec 11 18:00:48 EST 2012


On 12/11/2012 05:53 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> When you read the file line by line the end of line character is included
> in the result
>
> try user[:-1] instead to strip the return from your printed text
>

The catch to that is the last line in the file might not have a
newline.  In that case, we'd be ignoring the last character of the line.

The .rstrip() method is easy, and for most purposes equivalent.  Few
text files have trailing whitespace, but many are missing the final
linefeed.



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DaveA




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