barronmo wrote:
> I'm having difficulty getting the following code to work. All I want
> to do is remove the '0:00:00' from the end of each line. Here is part
> of the original file:
>
> 3,3,"Dyspepsia NOS",9/12/2003 0:00:00
>...
> 20,3,"Bubonic plague",11/11/2003 0:00:00
>
> output = open('my/path/ProblemListFixed.txt', 'w')
> for line in open('my/path/ProblemList.txt', 'r'):
> newline = line.rstrip('0:00:00')
> output.write(newline)
> output.close()
>
>
> This result is a copy of "ProblemList" without any changes made. What
> am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.
You should feel lucky that it didn't work :-) If you would have used
newline = line.rstrip('0:00:00\n')
you would not have found the problem, nor the solution.
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