> 1. How can I easily strip out the newline characters from the > elements > of cleanedlist?
You can use the string strip() method. > 2. Is there a better way to achieve my objective (ie. a list method > for generating the cleaned list?) You can convert the list to a Set. >>> L = [1,2,1,3,4,2] >>> s = set(L) >>> s set([1, 2, 3, 4]) >>> HTH, Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
