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Re: Problem with print and output to screen

Date 2012-12-11 18:00 -0500
From Dave Angel <d@davea.name>
Subject Re: Problem with print and output to screen
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On 12/11/2012 05:53 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> When you read the file line by line the end of line character is included
> in the result
>
> try user[:-1] instead to strip the return from your printed text
>

The catch to that is the last line in the file might not have a
newline.  In that case, we'd be ignoring the last character of the line.

The .rstrip() method is easy, and for most purposes equivalent.  Few
text files have trailing whitespace, but many are missing the final
linefeed.



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DaveA

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Problem with print and output to screen Mike <miguelcoam@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 14:31 -0800
  Re: Problem with print and output to screen Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-12-11 17:48 -0500
  Re: Problem with print and output to screen Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 17:53 -0500
  Re: Problem with print and output to screen Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-12-11 18:00 -0500
  Re: Problem with print and output to screen Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 18:07 -0500
    Re: Problem with print and output to screen Mike <miguelcoam@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 16:44 -0800
    Re: Problem with print and output to screen Mike <miguelcoam@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 16:44 -0800

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