[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 38, Issue 2

[Alan Gauld]

"Jay Mutter III" <jmutter at uakron.edu> wrote 


> Whether I attempt to just strip the string or attempt to
> 
> if line.endswith('No.\r'):
>     line = line.rstrip()
> 
> It doesn't work.

Can you try printing the string repr just before the test. 
Or even the last 6 characters:

print repr(line[-6:])
if line.endswith('No: \n')
   line = line.strip()

See if that helps narrow down the cause...

> This is an imac running python 2.3.5 under OS-X 10.4.9

Shouldn't make any odds.

Weird,

Alan G.