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pythonline-breaks
jamyn
jamyn

Reputation: 1933

removing linebreaks in python?

I'm working on a simple python game in which the player attempts to guess letters contained in a word. The problem is, when I print a word, it's printing the \n at the end.

From my initial research, I think I need to use r.string() to remove it. However, I'm not sure where it would go.

Sorry for the newbie question.

import random
with open('wordlist.txt') as wordList:
    secretWord = random.sample(list(wordList), 1)

print (secretWord)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 21220

Answers (3)

Mike
Mike

Reputation: 97

text = open("your file","r").read().replace('\n','')
x = set(text.split(" "))

Upvotes: 1

Kevin D
Kevin D

Reputation: 439

The other answers are better in my opinion, but you can also use:

secretWord = secretWord.replace('\n', ''))

EDIT: OP stated secretWord is a list, not a string.

In the case of a list of strings, use:

secretWord = [each.replace('\n', '') for each in secretWord]

Upvotes: 9

Blender
Blender

Reputation: 298196

You can use .strip() to strip out whitespace:

secret_word = random.choice(wordList).strip()

Upvotes: 8

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