Remove line breaks when reading file line by line

Question

I've written a code that takes in a file and reads it line by line but when it prints it adds a line break in-between each line. Here's my code:

in_file = open("in.txt", "r")
line_number = 0
for line in in_file:
    print "Line "+ str(line_number) + " " + "("+ str(len(line)) + " " + "chars): "+ str(line)
    line_number += 1

It prints this:

Line 0 (13 chars): I am a file.

Line 1 (16 chars): This is a line.

Line 2 (22 chars): This is the last line.

How can I get rid of the breaks? Thanks!

Possible duplicate of [How can I remove (chomp) a newline in Python?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/275018/how-can-i-remove-chomp-a-newline-in-python) — dnit13, Feb 26 '16 at 07:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '16 at 07:07

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Replace newline from end of line using .replace('\n', '')

print "Line "+ str(line_number) + " " + "("+ str(len(line)) + " " + "chars): "+ str(line).replace('\n', '')

answered Feb 26 '16 at 07:07

mmuzahid

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 26 '16 at 07:31

Remove the new line char from your line or don't print a new line in your print statement. In this example, I am not printing a new line:

in_file = open("in.txt", "r")
for num, line in enumerate(in_file, 1):
    print "Line", num, "(", len(line), "chars):", line,

Remove line breaks when reading file line by line

2 Answers2