How to skip the extra newline while printing lines read from a file?

Question

I am reading input for my python program from stdin (I have assigned a file object to stdin). The number of lines of input is not known beforehand. Sometimes the program mig

Answer 1

the python print statement adds a newline, but the original line already had a newline on it. You can suppress it by adding a comma at the end:

print line , #<--- trailing comma

For python3, (where print becomes a function), this looks like:

print(line,end='') #rather than the default `print(line,end='\n')`.

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Alternatively, you can strip the newline off the end of the line before you print it:

print line.rstrip('\n') # There are other options, e.g. line[:-1], ... 

but I don't think that's nearly as pretty.