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Ryan Sayles
Ryan Sayles

Reputation: 3431

Multiple line file into one string

Hello I'm making a python program that takes in a file. I want this to be set to a single string. My current code is:

with open('myfile.txt') as f:
    title = f.readline().strip();
    content = f.readlines();

The text file (simplified) is:

Title of Document
asdfad
adfadadf
adfadaf
adfadfad

I want to strip the title (which my program does) and then make the rest one string. Right now the output is: 

['asdfad\n', 'adfadadf\n', ect...]

and I want:

asdfadadfadadf ect...

I am new to python and I have spent some time trying to figure this out but I can't find a solution that works. Any help would be appreciated!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8016

Answers (4)

Jon Clements
Jon Clements

Reputation: 142136

Another option is to read the entire file, then remove the newlines instead of joining together:

with open('somefile') as fin:
    next(fin, None) # ignore first line
    one_big_string = fin.read().replace('\n', '')

Upvotes: 0

RyPeck
RyPeck

Reputation: 8147

Use list.pop(0) to remove the first line from content.

Then str.join(iterable). You'll also need to strip off the newlines.

content.pop(0)
done = "".join([l.strip() for l in content])
print done

Upvotes: 0

dawg
dawg

Reputation: 103764

You can do this:

with open('/tmp/test.txt') as f:
    title=f.next()       # strip title line
    data=''.join(line.rstrip() for line in f)

Upvotes: 6

Simon Callan
Simon Callan

Reputation: 3130

If you want the rest of the file in a single chunk, just call the read() function:

with open('myfile.txt') as f:
    title = f.readline().strip()
    content = f.read()

This will read the file until EOF is encountered.

Upvotes: -1

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