On Tue, 19 May 2009 10:25:35 +0200, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: >>>>>> Laurent Luce <laurentluc...@yahoo.com> (LL) wrote: > >>LL> I have the following list: > >>LL> [ 'test\n', test2\n', 'test3\n' ] > >>LL> I want to remove the '\n' from each string in place, what is the >>LL> most efficient way to do that ? > > I suppose you mean you have lists similar to the one given because with > a list of 3 elements efficiency is a non-issue unless you do something > stupid or repeat the operation thousands of times. Even with a list of > 1000 elements efficiency isn't very important. In fact you should worry > about efficiency only after there are signs that there might be a > problem. > > Secondly, in Python you cannot remove a character from a string in place > if that means modifying the string. Strings are immutable.
So the best way is probably to make sure the '\n's do not end up in the list in the first place. I suspect that is often more elegant too. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
