[Pythonmac-SIG] inputing multi-digit numbers

[Kirk Durston]

On 11/10/05 8:01 AM, "Henning.Ramm at mediapro-gmbh.de"
<Henning.Ramm at mediapro-gmbh.de> wrote:

>> I¹m  having a hard time figuring out how to input a list of numbers, each one
>> of  which can be 1, 2, or 3 digits in length. First, I select a column in an
>> Excel  file, and copy and past it into a Word file. I then save it as a text
>> file. I  then open a new window in Python and copy and paste the column of
>> numbers from  the text file into the window and save it as ŒFunction ID¹
>> 
>> In my main  program, I type
>> 
>> input=open('Function ID',  'r')
>> x=input.readlines()
>> input.close()
>> print x
>>  
> Try open (or file) with mode 'rU' (universal newline support), apparently the
> \r is not recognized as \n
>  
> Best regards,
> Henning Hraban Ramm
> Südkurier Medienhaus / MediaPro
> Support/Admin/Development Dept.
> 
Thank you. That gives me something closer to a list, but the output is now:
['939\n', '936\n', '937\n', '885\n', '886\n', '887\n', '171\n', '19\n', ...]

Question: how do I get rid of the \n attached to each member in my list? I
still need to do a lot of work with the contents of the list. I could run
each member of the list through a loop and slice off the \n, but I imagine
there is a more efficient way to do the job. Is there?

Thank you for your help.

Kirk


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