I have following list:
mylist = ['Hello,\r', 'Whats going on.\r', 'some text']
When I write "mylist" to a file called file.txt
open('file.txt', 'w').writelines(mylist)
I get for every line a little bit text because of the \r:
Hello,
Whats going on.
some text
How can I manipulate mylist to substitute the \r with a space? In the end I need this in file.txt:
Hello, Whats going on. sometext
It must be a list.
Thanks!
mylist = [s.replace("\r", " ") for s in mylist]
This loops through your list, and does a string replace on each element in it.
open('file.txt', 'w').writelines(map(lambda x: x.replace('\r',' '),mylist))
Iterate through the list to a match with a regular expression to replace /r with a space.
I don't know if you have this luxury, but I actually like to keep my lists of strings without newlines at the end. That way, I can manipulate them, doing things like dumping them out in debug mode, without having to do an "rstrip()" on them.
For example, if your strings were saved like:
mylist = ['Hello,', 'Whats going on.', 'some text']
Then you could display them like this:
print "\n".join(mylist)
or
print " ".join(mylist)
Use .rstrip():
>>> mylist = ['Hello,\r', 'Whats going on.\r', 'some text']
>>> ' '.join(map(str.rstrip,mylist))
'Hello, Whats going on. some text'
>>>
