On Monday 06 November 2006 05:29, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > tr -d '\n' > > > > deletes the new lines > > Ahhh, ok. Was still going off of the previous Python examples which > didn't delete newlines, only replaced them with spaces. Mea Culpa.
Oops again! What I meant to do (and I gather Douglas intended) in the python loop was replace the newlines with null strings: open('IN').read().replace('\n', '').split() etc. Regards, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]