strip() 2.4.4

[Nick]

On 21 Jun, 14:53, Neil Cerutti <horp... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2007-06-21, Nick <nickjby... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > strip() isn't working as i expect, am i doing something wrong -
>
> > Sample data in file in.txt:
>
> > 'AF':'AFG':'004':'AFGHANISTAN':'Afghanistan'
> > 'AL':'ALB':'008':'ALBANIA':'Albania'
> > 'DZ':'DZA':'012':'ALGERIA':'Algeria'
> > 'AS':'ASM':'016':'AMERICAN SAMOA':'American Samoa'
>
> > Code:
>
> > f1 = open('in.txt', 'r')
>
> > for line in f1:
> >     print line.rsplit(':')[4].strip("'"),
>
> > Output:
>
> > Afghanistan'
> > Albania'
> > Algeria'
> > American Samoa'
>
> > Why is there a apostrophe still at the end?
>
> Most likely it's the newline at the end of each record that's
> getting in your way.
>
> You can double-strip it.
>
> for line in f1:
>     print line.strip().rsplit(':')[4].strip("'")
>
> --
> Neil Cerutti
> The world is more like it is now than it ever has been before. --Dwight
> Eisenhower

Thank you all very much for your input, the above solved the problem
as most of you had already pointed out.