[PLUG] Python Lists and File Reads

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:

>  For example, I now have reworked the input data file so one term is on each
> line, and the script (still playing interactively), and read them into a
> list. But, each item in the list has a terminating \n and I don't know how to
> strip that off. Slicing removes the last element, not the newline from each
> element.

   Got it!

   fh = open('environ.in', 'r')
   input = fh.read().split()

   ... and input is a list with no newlines.

Excelsior!

Rich

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