On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:14:27PM -0400, William Allison wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to programming and started with Perl but have been reading a lot
> of good things about Python. Thought I would switch before I have too
> much time invested in Perl.
> Anyway, my question is, is there something in Python similar to the
> diamond operator and chomp from Perl? I'm trying to read in from a file
> line by line and get rid of the '\n' at the end of each line.
> Thanks,
> Will
Consider:
infile = open('infilename.txt', 'r')
for line in infile:
line = line.rstrip('\n')
o
o
o
infile.close()
A few notes:
- See http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html for more on
built-in functions and open() in particular.
- See http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html for more on
string operations and rstrip() in particular.
- rstrip() with no arguments strips all whitespace on the right.
- A file object (returned by the open() function) is an iterator; it
obeys the iterator protocol. That's why you can use it in the
"for" statement above.
Dave
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