stef wrote:
> hello,
>
> In the previous language I used,
> when reading a line by readline, the EOL character was removed.
>
> Now I'm reading a text-file with CR+LF at the end of each line,
> Datafile = open(filename,'r') line = Datafile.readline()
>
> now this gives an extra empty line
> print line
>
> and what I expect that should be correct, remove CR+LF,
> gives me one character too much removed
> print line[,-2]
>
> while this gives what I need ???
> print line[,-1]
>
> Is it correct that the 2 characters CR+LF are converted to 1 character ?
> Is there a more automatic way to remove the EOL from the string ?
line = line.rstrip("\r\n") should take care of it. If you leave out the
parameter, it will strip out all whitespace at the end of the line,
which is what I do in most cases.
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