Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'importing': 0.05; 'integers': 0.09; 'iterate': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:script': 0.09; 'sys,': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'template': 0.14; 'attempted': 0.16; 'comma': 0.16; 'csv': 0.16; 'pythonic': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'separated': 0.16; 'tab': 0.16; 'module': 0.19; 'file,': 0.19; 'thu,': 0.19; 'input': 0.22; 'example': 0.22; 'import': 0.22; 'print': 0.22; 'this?': 0.23; 'url:home': 0.24; '(or': 0.24; 'define': 0.26; 'handling': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'external': 0.29; 'lines': 0.31; "skip:' 10": 0.31; 'file': 0.32; 'supposed': 0.32; 'charset:us- ascii': 0.36; 'being': 0.38; 'received:76': 0.38; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.38; 'expect': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'new': 0.61; 'range': 0.61; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'skip:n 10': 0.64; 'useful.': 0.68; 'cut': 0.74; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: suppress newlines in my script Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 19:11:58 -0400 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <52c74908-8bac-498e-9549-5b9500b152f1@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-76-249-19-5.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 41 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1369350733 news.xs4all.nl 15947 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:35755 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:45852 On Thu, 23 May 2013 13:49:02 -0700 (PDT), sloan949@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > I am importing lines from an external csv file and when I iterate through the lines and increment, new lines are introduced. > How would I cut out the newlines. I have attempted several pythonic strip() and rstrip() how can i implent this? > > > import sys, os > > f=open('europe_csv') > lines=f.readlines() > You state it is a comma separated file... Python has, for years, a module just for handling CSV (or tab separated, or even others if you define the "dialect"). > BU = 'Company,,,,,,,,,,,,,,' > PPP = 'Pre-Prod,,,,,,,,Prod,,,,,,' > C1 = ',,,,,,,,,,,,,,' > Title = 'Site,Environment,' > NET1 = lines[4] What is "lines[4]" supposed to look like? > > > for count in range(64, 127): > print NET1.format(count) And what do you expect this to produce? NET1 is being used as a template into which you are placing (if it has a placeholder) integers in the range 64..126 An example of the input file, and an example of what you expect to produce with it, would be useful. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/