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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:15:58 -0400
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On 7/20/2014 5:40 AM, Martin S wrote:

> while c >=0:
>          x=games[c][0]
>          if x=="#":
>              del games[c] #This removes the comments from the file parsed
>          else:
>              games[c].rstrip('\n') #This does nothing, expected to remove \n

Chris already pointed out error here.

>          c=c-1
>      # Now we have a list with only proper lines

I believe what you are aiming for is

games = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in games if line[0] != '#']

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy