[Tutor] Searching a text file's contents and comparing them toa list

[Eric Hamiter]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:

>
> If you never need a stripped version of line again, or if you
> are planning on writing it out to another file then this is fine.
> If you are going to use it again its probably better to strip()
> and asign to itelf:
>
> line = line.strip()
>
> Also you might find rstrip() slightly safer if you have any
> unusual characters at the start of line...
>

Thanks for the tip Alan, I think I'll assign it to itself.
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