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On 07/27/2014 11:25 PM, Noah wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> The following code I am using to read in lines from a text file. The
> indentation of the text is getting lost. How can I correct that?
>
>
> for file in files:
> with open (file, "r") as file:
> lines = file.readlines()
>
> for line in lines:
> line = re.sub("#.*", "", line)
> line = line.strip()
The *strip* method on strings removes all whitespace from both ends.
There goes your indentation.
> policy_lines.append(line)
> print line
>
> Cheers
Example:
>>> " abc ".strip()
'abc'
Gary Herron
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