On Jan 26, 12:54 am, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> One other caveat here, "line" contains the newline at the end, so > you might have > > print line.rstrip('\r\n') > > to remove them. I don't understand the presence of the '\r' there. Any '\x0d' that remains after reading the file in text mode and is removed by that rstrip would be a strange occurrence in the data which the OP may prefer to find out about and deal with; it is not part of "the newline". Why suppress one particular data character in preference to others? The same applies in any case to the use of rstrip('\n'); if that finds more than one ocurrence of '\x0a' to remove, it has exceeded the mandate of removing the newline (if any). So, we are left with the unfortunately awkward if line.endswith('\n'): line = line[:-1] Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list