Un-printable characters (including cr/lf) in the data read from the file?
> I'm trying to read the content of a file to specify the name of a server to a
> python script. If I set the variable directly, it works fine If I read the
> file, the script fails with a 'can't find server' error.
>
> Setting the hostname directly is easy enough:
>
> SERVER_NAME = fqdn.domain.net
>
> That works fine... Adding a print to the script prints the appropriate
> hostname.
>
> If, however, I try to read the filename from a file, I get what amounts to a
> host not found error:
>
> f1 = open('/path/to/file', 'r')
>
> SERVER_NAME = f1.read()
> f1.closed
>
> And again, printing the variable prints the correct hostname, but when the
> script attempts to access the host, it can't find the host.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Russell Johnson
> [email protected]
>
>
>
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