On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote: > On 12/11/2012 05:53 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > > When you read the file line by line the end of line character is included > > in the result > > > > try user[:-1] instead to strip the return from your printed text > > > > The catch to that is the last line in the file might not have a > newline. In that case, we'd be ignoring the last character of the line. > > The .rstrip() method is easy, and for most purposes equivalent. Few > text files have trailing whitespace, but many are missing the final > linefeed. > > Point taken. Brain freeze. I forgot about .rstrip. That is the way to go > > -- > > DaveA > >
-- Joel Goldstick
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