[Tutor] rstrip in list?
bob gailer
bgailer at gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 17:15:29 CET 2010
Ken G. wrote:
> I printed out some random numbers to a list and use 'print mylist' and
> they came out like this:
>
> ['102\n', '231\n', '463\n', '487\n', '555\n', '961\n']
>
> I was using 'print mylist.rstrip()' to strip off the '\n'
>
> but kept getting an error of :
>
> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'rstrip'
rstrip is a string method, not a list method. You must apply it to each
element in the list. One way is:
print [item.rstrip() for iten in mylist]
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Bob Gailer
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Chapel Hill NC
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