removing tag from a line in Python

Question

I have a text that has the following schema:

word1:word2

word3:word4

...

I would like to remove the last part
, a

Answer 1

That's because each line ends with newline character(s).

You can fix it like this (and automatically close the file):

def main():
    with open("test.txt", "r") as fileR:
        for line in (line.rstrip() for line in fileR):
            if line.endswith('<br />'):
                line = line[:-6]
                print line

Answer 2

I'd recommend using a regex replace for this instead of what you're currently using.

import re

def main():
  fileR=open('test.txt','r')
  for line in fileR:
    line = re.replace(r'<br ?/>$','',line)
    print line

Or, if you want, you can just replace all of them at once before printing out each line individually because python's regex is global by default.

import re

def main():
  fileR=open('test.txt','r')
  fileR = re.replace(r'<br ?/>$','',fileR)
  for line in fileR:
    print line

Answer 3

You can use a regular expression:

import re
re.sub('<br>', '', line)

For example:

re.sub('<br>', '', 'test<br>text<br>')

gives:

testtext