[Tutor] rstrip in list? (SOLVED)

[Ken G.]

There was so many different solutions presented here to me.

Thanks to all.  By adding '.strip('\n') to the last two lines below, it 
came out:

Sorted List

['102', '231', '463', '487', '555', '961']

for line in file.readlines():
    print line.strip('\n'),
    mylist.append(line.strip('\n'))

Further work and studying needed here.   LOL.

Ken

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:28:43 am Ken G. wrote:
>   
>> I printed out some random numbers to a list and use 'print mylist'
>> and they came out like this:
>>
>> ['102\n', '231\n', '463\n', '487\n', '555\n', '961\n']
>>
>> I was using 'print mylist.rstrip()' to strip off the '\n'
>>
>> but kept getting an error of :
>>
>> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'rstrip'
>>     
>
> You have to apply rstrip to each item in the list, not the list itself.
>
> Here are two ways to do it:
>
> #1: modify the list in a for-loop 
> for i, item in enumerate(mylist):
>     mylist[i] = item.rstrip()
>
> #2: make a new list with a list comprehension
> mylist = [item.rstrip() for item in mylist]
>
>
> Of the two, I prefer the second.
>
>
>
>   
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