How you chomp in python

[Fernando Armenta]

How you cut off the ^M at the end of a line? rstrip is not working.



string.rstrip(b uild_number)



thanks,



-F

[Pete Jereb]

Re: How you chomp in python

"Fernando Armenta" <farmenta@pilla rdata.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1 064022207.30931 .python-list@python.org >...[color=blue]
> How you cut off the ^M at the end of a line? rstrip is not working.
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> string.rstrip(b uild number)
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Do you mean the newline character? If your string variable is named
build_number, then

build_number = build_number.rs trip('/n')

works. Sorry if this isn't what you meant. But the format should be
the same. If you did mean ^M then perhaps a hex or octal
representation?

[JZ]

Re: How you chomp in python

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:43:14 -0700, "Fernando Armenta"
<farmenta@pilla rdata.com> wrote:
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>How you cut off the ^M at the end of a line? rstrip is not working.[/color]

chomp in Perl change the string in place
rstrip in Python is method, it does NOT change the string in place
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> s = "abc\n"
>>> s.rstrip()[/color][/color][/color]
'abc'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> s[/color][/color][/color]
'abc\n'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> s = s.rstrip()[/color][/color][/color]
'abc'

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JZ

[JZ]

Re: How you chomp in python

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:43:14 -0700, "Fernando Armenta"
<farmenta@pilla rdata.com> wrote:
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>How you cut off the ^M at the end of a line? rstrip is not working.[/color]

Strings in Perl are mutable so chomp() change the string in place.
Strings in Python are *not* mutable, so rstrip() does *not* change
the string in place.
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> s = "abc\n"
>>> s.rstrip()[/color][/color][/color]
'abc'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> s[/color][/color][/color]
'abc\n'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> s = s.rstrip()[/color][/color][/color]
'abc'

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JZ