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Opening file and outputting its text content example - leodavinci1990 - Oct-12-2020
If the Python file below is run on a text file containing the following:
Hello! Welcome to demofile.txt
This file is for testing purposes.
Good Luck!
Why does it return empty spaces in the output between each line of text-like below?
Hello! Welcome to demofile.txt
This file is for testing purposes.
Good Luck!
f=open(r"C:\Users\.....\Documents\demofile.txt")
data=None
while data!="":
#If an empty string is returned,
#the file end is reached
data= f.readline()
print(data[:])
f.close()
RE: Opening file and outputting its text content example - buran - Oct-12-2020
when you read line from file it also read the new-line char at the end of the line.
print() function also add new-line char at the end, so combined you have 2 new-line chars.one way is to strip the new-line char from line using
str.strip() method, the other is to pass end='' to print function.