Python: Too much space between printing lines read from a text file

Question

I have this little problem. If i create a list from the content of a txt file and print it row by row there are huge spaces between these outputs.

Like:

Name

Name

Street

Thats how i want to style it:

Name
Name
Street

And this is the code:

import os.path

print('Get User Data')
print()
vName = input('Vorname:   ')
nName = input('Nachname:  ')


data = [vName, nName]

if os.path.isfile('data/'+vName+'_'+nName+'.txt'):
    file = open('data/'+vName+'_'+nName+'.txt', 'r')
    content = file.readlines()
    for element in content:
        print(element)
else:
    data.append(input('Straße/Nr.:'))
    file = open('data/'+vName+'_'+nName+'.txt', 'w')
    for row in data:
        file.write(row)
    print()
    print('New File created. --> /data/'+vName+'_'+nName+'.txt')

file.close()

Can someone explain why this happens and how to fix it? Thank you :)

Answer 1

You simply need to strip the new line character, \n, before you print.

element.strip('\n') will get the job done.

if os.path.isfile('data/'+vName+'_'+nName+'.txt'):
    file = open('data/'+vName+'_'+nName+'.txt', 'r')
    content = file.readlines()
    for element in content:
        element = element.strip('\n') # this is the line we add to strip the newline character
        print(element)