Python . How to get rid of '\r' in string?
list, python, replace, string
Solution
To accepts any of `\r`, `\n`, `\r\n` as a newline you could use `'U'` (universal newline) file mode:
>>> open('test_newlines.txt', 'rb').read()
'a\rb\nc\r\nd'
>>> list(open('test_newlines.txt'))
['a\rb\n', 'c\r\n', 'd']
>>> list(open('test_newlines.txt', 'U'))
['a\n', 'b\n', 'c\n', 'd']
>>> open('test_newlines.txt').readlines()
['a\rb\n', 'c\r\n', 'd']
>>> open('test_newlines.txt', 'U').readlines()
['a\n', 'b\n', 'c\n', 'd']
>>> open('test_newlines.txt').read().split()
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
If you want to get a numeric (float) array from the file; see Reading file string into an array (In a pythonic way)
Problem
I have an excel file that I converted to a text file with a list of numbers. ``` test = 'filelocation.txt' in_file = open(test,'r') for line in in_file: print line 1.026106236 1.660274766 2.686381002 4.346655769 7.033036771 1.137969254 a = [] for line in in_file: a.append(line) print a '1.026106236\r1.660274766\r2.686381002\r4.346655769\r7.033036771\r1.137969254' ``` I wanted to assign each value (in each line) to an individual element in the list. Instead it is creating one element separated by \r . i'm not sure what \r is but why is putting these into the code ? I think I know a way to get rid of the \r from the string but i want to fix the problem from the source