<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grant,<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">> My question is, is it possible to strip out multiple characters at once? <br><br>Kent answered that bit.<br><br>> started = False
<br>> for line in file('mylist.py'):<br>> if 'jobs' in line and not started:<br>> ...<br>> if ']' not in line and started:<br>>
jobs.append(line.strip('...'))<br>> else: print "break"<br><br>Are you sure you only want to print break? If so the code will <br>continue processing lines after the end of your list. My break <br>command will exit the loop when it finds the ] character. If you <br>don't want to use break you could set started to False again.<br><br></div>Alan G.<br></div></div><br>
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