On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 03:45 am, George Trojan - NOAA Federal wrote: > I have files containing ASCII text with line s separated by '\r\r\n'. > Example: > > $ od -c FTAK31_PANC_131140.1481629265635 > 0000000 F T A K 3 1 P A N C 1 3 1 1 > 0000020 4 0 \r \r \n T A F A B E \r \r \n T A [...] > 0000300 \r \r \n > 0000303 > > What is the proper way of getting a list of lines?
Do you have any objection to post-processing the list of lines? lines = open(filename).readlines() # remove leading and trailing whitespace, including newline characters lines = [line.strip() for line in lines] # get rid of empty strings lines = [line for line in lines if line] If you prefer, that last line of code can be written as either: lines = filter(None, lines) # Python 2 lines = list(filter(None, lines)) # Python 3 Personally, this would be my preferred technique, as I (nearly) always end up doing a strip() on data I read from text files, so the extra call to filter is no big deal. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
