Removing extra new lines with print() in python

Question

I have written these lines in a file

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With the following python code

f = open("foo.txt",'r')
for line in f:
    print (line)

I see that there is a newline between each line that is reads from

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# terminal prompt

How can I remove those new lines?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 27 '19 at 20:50

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You can instead call print as

print(line, end='')

to prevent print from adding an newline on top of the ones read from the file.

answered Dec 27 '19 at 20:50

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 27 '19 at 20:54

This is because each line includes newline character(s), and print prints a newline character after everything else, for a total of up-to 2 newlines (the last line might have only 1).

You could strip the newline characters from the line.

f = open("foo.txt",'r')
for line in f:
    print(line.rstrip('\r\n'))

Removing extra new lines with print() in python

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