[Tutor] Better way to remove lines from a list?

[Peter Otten]

boB Stepp wrote:

> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Peter Otten wrote:
>>boB Stepp wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:59:18PM +0200, Peter Otten wrote:
> 
>>>># assuming that the colon after one of your ADRs is a typo
>>>
>>> That eighth semicolon is no typo.  That is a direct copy and paste from
>>> a Google contacts export in vCard format.
> 
> Oops!  I did read your "colon" as semicolon.  But despite that...
> 
>>>>> ADR:100;;4700 E McCain Blvd;North Little Rock;AR;72117;US;4700 E
>>>>> McCain
>>
>>I meant the ":" after "ADR" in the line above, not the ";" after US in
> 
> That is still legitimate syntax (with the colon after ADR).  The "TYPE="
> is
> entirely optional.  I notice that the lack of "TYPE=" shows up in my
> Google contacts export whenever the type set in Google Contacts is
> "Other".
> 

Then my suggested startswith check

def cleaned(line):
    if line.startswith("ADR;"):
        line = ";".join(line.split(";")[:8])
    return line + "\n"

is wrong. I felt a little uneasy with just

line.startswith("ADR")

because in theory more letters could follow.