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speedyrazor
speedyrazor

Reputation: 3205

Python reading and printing text file

I am reading in a text file and printing the contents, but am getting the below result, instead of line breaks, etc, which when opening the text file I can see, it is printing out \n along with other characters. How do I change the printing to reflect what the text file actually looks like? This is how I am reading in the text file:

infile = file("/path/to/log/file")
line = infile.readlines()
print line

This is the print I am getting:

'[2014-02-12 11:24:14 GMT] INFO: Logging configured successfully.\n', '[2014-02-12 11:24:14 GMT] INFO: iTMSTransporter : iTunes Store Transporter [1.7.9]\n', '[2014-02-12 11:24:14 GMT] INFO: OS identifier: Mac OS X 10.9.1 (x86_64); jvm=24.0-b26; jre=1.7.0-internal-root_2012_12_05_20_29-b00\n', '[2014-02-12 11:24:14 GMT] INFO: Memory: [JVM] 20M free, 31M total, 989M max [System] (Physical) 824M free, 8192M total (Swap) 1024M free, 1024M total\n', '[2014-02-12 11:24:14 GMT]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 89

Answers (3)

jacek
jacek

Reputation: 1

If you want read file and close it:

with open("/path/to/log/file") as file_:
    for line in file_:
         print line.strip()

Upvotes: 0

jonrsharpe
jonrsharpe

Reputation: 121975

The '\n' character is the line break. str.strip() will remove this and other whitespace for you:

for l in line:
    print(l.strip())

Upvotes: 0

Colin Bernet
Colin Bernet

Reputation: 1394

Just do 

for line in infile:
  print line

What you were doing, calling infile.readlines(), gives you a list of all lines in the file.

Upvotes: 1

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