Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings?

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Date	2014-06-05 15:05 -0500
Subject	Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings?
From	Ryan Hiebert <ryan@ryanhiebert.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Ryan Hiebert <ryan@ryanhiebert.com> wrote:
> > 2014-06-05 13:42 GMT-05:00 Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de>:
> >
> >> On 05.06.2014 20:16, Paul Rubin wrote:
> >> > Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> writes:
> >> >> line = line[:-1]
> >> >> Which truncates the trailing "\n" of a textfile line.
> >> >
> >> > use line.rstrip() for that.
> >>
> >> rstrip has different functionality than what I'm doing.
> >
> >
> > How so? I was using line=line[:-1] for removing the trailing newline, and
> > just replaced it with rstrip('\n'). What are you doing differently?
>
> >>> line = "Hello,\nworld!\n\n"
> >>> line[:-1]
> 'Hello,\nworld!\n'
> >>> line.rstrip('\n')
> 'Hello,\nworld!'
>
> If it's guaranteed to end with exactly one newline, then and only then
> will they be identical.
>
>  OK, that's not an issue for my case, and additionally I'm using the
open(_, 'U') file iterable, so I shouldn't see multiple trailing newlines
anyway.

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Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-04 10:39 +1000
  Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-06-03 21:18 -0400
    Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-04 12:13 +1000
      Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-06-04 18:48 +1200
        Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-06-04 10:57 +0000
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      Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-06-04 05:52 -0700
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  Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2014-06-05 18:09 +0200
    Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-05 11:16 -0700
      Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2014-06-05 20:42 +0200
        Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Ryan Hiebert <ryan@ryanhiebert.com> - 2014-06-05 13:52 -0500
          Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-05 12:58 -0700
            Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-06-05 14:18 -0600
              Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2014-06-06 10:47 +0200
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              Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-06-05 17:00 -0400
                Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-06-05 15:24 -0700
                Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-06-05 15:57 -0700
                Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-06-05 20:10 -0400
                Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-06-05 17:43 -0700
                Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-06 14:20 +0000
            Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-06-05 18:05 -0600
          Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2014-06-06 10:42 +0200
            Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-06 20:24 -0700
        Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-06 05:59 +1000
        Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Ryan Hiebert <ryan@ryanhiebert.com> - 2014-06-05 15:05 -0500

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