Craps should have guessed that was the problem. Must have misunderstood the examples.
But thanks =) And yes, definately should be able to build a better parser ... I want it to work first. /Martin S 2014-07-20 11:57 GMT+02:00 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Martin S <shieldf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> games[c].rstrip('\n') #This does nothing, expected to remove \n >> >> While all records in the remaining list now are valid, all also still >> have "\n" at the end. What did I miss here? > > Strings don't change. When you call rstrip(), it returns a new string > which is the stripped value. You'll need to slot that back in: > > games[c] = games[c].rstrip('\n') > > However, there may be a better way to do this - possibly a cleaner parser. > > ChrisA > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Regards, Martin S -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list