Ok I am writing a program that reads text files and goes through the different lines, the problem that I have encountered however is line endings (\n). My aim is to read the text file line by line and write it to a list and remove the line endings before it is appended to the list.
I have tried this:
thelist = []
inputfile = open('text.txt','rU')
for line in inputfile:
line.rstrip()
thelist.append(line)
rstrip doesn't change its argument, it returns modified string, that's why you must write it so:
thelist.append(line.rstrip())
But you can write your code simpler:
with open('text.txt', 'rU') as inputfile:
thelist = [x.rstrip() for x in inputfile]