[Tutor] Why Doesn't the for loop Increment?

[Alan Gauld]

On 15/01/2021 13:24, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
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> with open('ligands_3') as ligand_file:
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> for ligand in ligand_file:
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You want to add a line here:


ligand = ligand.rstrip()


That will remove the linefeed which was read from the file.

Cameron had that in his code(I forgot!)...


> Now I'm really tearing out what little hair I have left - were did the
'\n' originate??????

It was in the original ligands file - separating the lines from each other.


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