[Tutor] String Attribute

[Alan Gauld]

On 02/08/15 10:15, Ltc Hotspot wrote:
> Question1: Why did the following strip function fail:         line2 =
> line.strip (',')

What makes you think it failed?
I see no error messages below.

> Question2: How do I code a vertical column output

See below.

> Revised code:
> fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
> if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt"
> fh = open(fname)
> count = 0
> addresses =[]
> for line in fh:
>      if line.startswith('From'):

You are still not checking for 'From ' - with a space. Thats why you still
get 54 instead of 27.

>          line2 = line.strip ()
>          line3 = line2.split()
>          line4 = line3[1]
>          addresses.append(line4)
>          count = count + 1
> print addresses

To get a vertical printout try this:

print '\n'.join(addresses)

Which converts the list into a string with a newline between each element.

Alternatively do it the manual way:

for addr in addresses: print addr


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