Importing file lines into a set without EOL characters and without post-processing

Question

i've got a file that basically is a list, every entry is separated by carraige return. I'm trying to load this lines into a set() with this code:

with open('file','r') as f:
  entries = set()
  for row in f:
    entries.add(row)

The file looks like this:

entry1
entry2
entry3

In the end, the set looks like this if i print it:

set(['entry1\r\n', 'entry2\r\n'...])

I've got to do work with the set and i can't do searches and stuff with this EOL chars.

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12330522/reading-a-file-without-newlines — , May 12 '16 at 18:06

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 12 '16 at 18:02

1

Use str.rstrip() to strip the carriage return

with open('file','r') as f:
  entries = set()
  for row in f:
    entries.add(row.rstrip())

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answered May 12 '16 at 18:02

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