Remove '\n' from each string stored in a python list

Question

I have a python list in which look like this:

my_list = ['OFAC\n', 'Social Media Analytics\n', 'Teaching Skills\n', 'Territory...\n', 'Active Directory...\n', 'Business Research\n', 'Call Center...\n', 'Treatment of depression\n', 'VB\n', 'CAN\n', 'Client Interfacing...\n', 'Consolidated Financial...\n']

How can i remove the \n from the end of each element and why is strip not working ?.

I tried line.strip('\n') and line.replace('\n','') but it is not affecting anything.

The text file from which the list is made looks like this:

Java Basic
Core Java
C++
Python
...

Code for putting the textfile into the list is:

with open("myfile.txt") as f:
    for line in f:
        st_line = line.strip('\n')
        d.append(st_line)

that should work. But what do you have in input? file or list? — Jean-François Fabre, Feb 27 '17 at 14:45
try with `st_line = line.rstrip()`. However, do you have a list or an input file ? — Chiheb Nexus, Feb 27 '17 at 14:48
Is it possible you're reading a file with DOS line endings (`\r\n`) in an environment expecting Unix (`\n`) line endings? — jas, Feb 27 '17 at 14:48
With that code you cannot end up with that list. You're not telling the truth. — Stefan Pochmann, Feb 27 '17 at 14:52
@Jean-FrançoisFabre - I have an input file from which I'm transferring the contents into the list. — anshaj, Feb 28 '17 at 05:22
Possible duplicate of [How to read a file line-by-line into a list?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3277503/how-to-read-a-file-line-by-line-into-a-list) — Pike D., Mar 02 '17 at 06:14

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '17 at 14:57

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Try something like this:

with open("myfile.txt") as f:
    d = map(str.rstrip, f.readlines())
print d

For your input above this will output:

['Java Basic', 'Core Java', 'C++', 'Python']

answered Feb 27 '17 at 14:57

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Remove '\n' from each string stored in a python list

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