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unaied
unaied

Reputation: 307

Import text file into python list has \n in each item. How to remove \n from each item during the import?

I am using the following code to extract text from .txt file into a list

with open("german.txt", "r") as f:
    stopwords = []
    for item in f:
      # print(item)
      stopwords.append(item)
    print(stopwords)

sample of the german.txt file

aber
alle
allem
allen
aller
alles
als

the results

['aber\n', 'alle\n', 'allem\n', 'allen\n'......

Why am I getting \n with each item? Is there an easy way to complete this without the \n

Upvotes: 1

Views: 677

Answers (1)

Greg Hewgill
Greg Hewgill

Reputation: 993105

You can use:

stopwords.append(item.rstrip())

The rstrip() method:

Return a copy of the string with trailing characters removed. The chars argument is a string specifying the set of characters to be removed. If omitted or None, the chars argument defaults to removing whitespace. The chars argument is not a suffix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped:

Upvotes: 2

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