perl chomp equivalent in python?
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake at acm.org
Thu Feb 10 15:35:26 EST 2000
Gerrit Holl writes:
> >>> import os
> >>> lines = open("path-to-file", 'r').readlines()
> >>> for line in lines:
> ... print line[:len(os.linesep)]
>
> cross-platformness-rules-ly y'rs - gerrit
Gerrit,
This won't work on DOS or Windows. os.linesep is two characters,
but the line will only contain a '\n', since the file was opened in
text mode. The original code was fine. ;)
-Fred
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