[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 38, Issue 10

[Alan Gauld]

"Jay Mutter III" <jmutter at uakron.edu> wrote

>> Can you try printing the string repr just before the test.
>> Or even the last 6 characters:
>>
>> print repr(line[-6:])
>> if line.endswith('No: \n')
>>    line = line.strip()

> Alan using your suggestion with the code aove here is the print out:
>
> jay-mutter-iiis-computer:~/documents/ToBePrinted jlm1$ python 
> test.py
> 'andal\r'
> '  No.\r'

Just to be picky, the code I posted used a colon and a space
whereas the repr shows a period and no space. And it's using \r
so what happens if you run  it again with:

print repr(line[-6:])
if line.endswith('No.\r'):
    line = line.strip()

Clutching at straws,

Alan G.