Ben Cartwright wrote:
> Actually, it creates a new string instance with the \n character
> removed, then discards it. The original switches[0] string hasn't
> changed.
> Yes. You are repeated assigning a new string instance to "line", which
> is then never referenced again.
Ah, thank you!
> PS - actually, you can accomplish all of the above in a single line of
> code:
> print [line[:-1] for line in open('C:\\switches.txt')]
Wow, that just replaced 7 lines of code! So *this* is why Python is
good. :)
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