[Tutor] string on multiple lines

[Magnus Lycka]

At 12:11 2002-11-13 -0500, Chris Kassopulo wrote:
>It is the first line of a .csv file.  I read it with readlines
>and replace '\r\n' with ''.

Ok, so it contains headings for data to follow?

But comparing it with a string like that seems brittle.
I mean, if
  a = '"This", "That"'
and
  b = '"This","That"'
then
  a == b
will be false. Is that really what you want?

Maybe you are in fact reinventing the wheel here.
Have a look at ASV, CSV or DSV, mentioned here:
thinkware.se/cgi-bin/thinki.cgi/UsefulPythonModules

>but this doesn't work because of the leading spaces:
>     tst_string='"Series",\
>         "Denomination",\
>         "Serial Number",\
>         "Issue Date"'

As I wrote before (I think?), you need leading and
trailing ' on each line.

     tst_string='"Series",'\
        '"Denomination",'\
         '"Serial Number",'\
        '"Issue Date"'


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