Nick wrote:
> strip() isn't working as i expect, am i doing something wrong -
>
> Sample data in file in.txt:
>
> 'AF':'AFG':'004':'AFGHANISTAN':'Afghanistan'
> 'AL':'ALB':'008':'ALBANIA':'Albania'
> 'DZ':'DZA':'012':'ALGERIA':'Algeria'
> 'AS':'ASM':'016':'AMERICAN SAMOA':'American Samoa'
>
>
> Code:
>
> f1 = open('in.txt', 'r')
>
> for line in f1:
> print line.rsplit(':')[4].strip("'"),
>
> Output:
>
> Afghanistan'
> Albania'
> Algeria'
> American Samoa'
>
> Why is there a apostrophe still at the end?
As others have already guessed, the problem is trailing whitespace, namely
the newline that you should have stripped
for line in f1:
line = line.rstrip("\n")
print line.rsplit(":", 1)[-1].strip("'")
instead of suppressing it with the trailing comma in the print statement.
Here is another approach that might work:
import csv
for row in csv.reader(f1, delimiter=":", quotechar="'"):
print row[-1]
that should work, too.
Peter
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