Thanks for the reply Mark, tried that, same result.
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> On 22/09/2015 13:37, richard kappler wrote:
>
>> I have a file with several lines. I need to prepend each line with \x02
>> and
>> append each line with \x03 for reading into Splunk. I can get the \x02 at
>> the beginning of each line, no problem, but can't get the \x03 to go on
>> the
>> end of the line. Instead it goes to the beginning of the next line.
>>
>> I have tried:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>>
>> with open('input/test.xml', 'r') as f1:
>> with open('mod1.xml', 'a') as f2:
>> for line in f1:
>> s = ('\x02' + line + '\x03')
>> f2.write(s)
>>
>> as well as the same script but using .join, to no avail. What am I
>> missing?
>>
>> regards, Richard
>>
>>
> Your line has EOL on the end. Getting rid of the unneeded brackets try:-
>
> s = '\x02' + line[:-1] + '\x03\n'
>
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