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BluShift
July 18th, 2009, 06:39 AM
I posted this earlier but mysteriously got NO REPLIES. So I'll word it a little differently:

Whenever I write the contents of a variable to a text file in Bash, it writes fine. When I write a variable to a text file in Python, it writes fine. Reading back the text file ALSO works. But when I read back a text file written from Bash, it ALWAYS has an extra newline character at the end.

I don't want to make this too long, for fear of not getting help, but I understand the idea of adding a comma (,) after the whatever.read() or whatever. But this complicates ALOT of things and I want to know if there is an easier fix. If you want to see the code I'm using I'd be more than happy to post. I just want to get SOMETHING in the way of help.

PLEASE HELP. :confused:

lisati
July 18th, 2009, 06:49 AM
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7633645#post7633645