"Daniel Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In [2]: fileName = fileName[0:len(fileName)-1)] # remove the '\n'
To chop the last character regardless of what it is:
fileName = fileName[:-1]
You don't need the 0 since thats the default, and you can use a negative
index instead of subtracting from len(x).
> Question two:
> Does python provide any function that can remove the newline character
> from a string if it exists?
>
To remove all trailing whitespace:
fileName = fileName.rstrip()
to just remove a newline:
fileName = fileName.rstrip('\n')
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