[Tutor] How to skip to next line in for loop

[Alan Gauld]

"bob gailer" <bgailer at gmail.com> wrote

>>   if line == "3":
>
> Assuming you adopt my approach, then each line will  be a digit 
> followed by \n (newline). So no line will == "3". Instead use:
>
>    if line[:-1] == "3":

or

     if line.rstrip() == "3"

or even

    if line.startswith("3"):

personally I prefer rstrip() over the -1 slice because it catches
more potential junk.

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
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