Python : remove ‘\n’ from a list

small tips.

You can delete ‘\n’ with rstrip method like this.

read a text file, put those into a list, remove ‘\n’.

# cat a.txt hello cheers nice good bye # python >>> f = open('a.txt') >>> >>> list = f.readlines() >>> >>> list ['hello\n', 'cheers\n', 'nice\n', 'good\n', 'bye\n'] >>> >>> list2 = [] >>> >>> for i in list: ...     list2.append(i.rstrip('\n')) ... >>> >>> list2 ['hello', 'cheers', 'nice', 'good', 'bye'] >>>