Reading file in python without linebreak

Question

I want to be able to read a file and add a string onto it line by line without having a line break in the middle.

text_file = open("read_it.txt", "r")
print text_file.readline() + "0123456789"

Outputs to

>>
text
0123456789
>>

I would like have it output to this format

>>
text0123456789
>>

Howard · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-24 20:32:34Z

6

Use the rstrip method:

text_file.readline().rstrip() + "0123456789"

answered Sep 24, 2011 at 20:32

Howard

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4 Comments

+1, but be aware that not only (CR)LF but also other whitespace will be stripped off the end of the line.

@TimPietzcker Of course you are right. But you can use text.rstrip("\r\n") instead to only strip newlines.

Oh, yes, you're right. Sorry about that. Well, you already have my +1 (but still, \n is enough, even on Windows).

How about text.rstrip(os.linesep) ?