Python remove enter / space between lines

OK so I have read a lot of the post that suggest how to eliminate that extra space, but for whatever reason it seems I can't apply those suggestions to my system, so I am here asking for your help.

These are the last few lines of my code:

for line in rline[start+5 : end] :
words = line.split()
word1 = int(words[1])
print >>opennew, "%s%s" % (word1,line[30:])

And the new "opennew" file looks like this :

1 0.876153 0.152889 -0.047464

2 1.011880 -1.161641 -2.096289

3 0.883419 1.558736 1.966913

4 2.010367 -1.140725 1.053368

While what I really want is:

1 0.876153 0.152889 -0.047464
2 1.011880 -1.161641 -2.096289
3 0.883419 1.558736 1.966913
4 2.010367 -1.140725 1.053368


Is there anyway I add to the code something to remove that additional (unwanted) enter/space from my input?

Thanks a lot for the help.

PS: (Please do not ask why I split the lines in the code, there is a purpose for this will have an application in a future (better) code)

print will add a newline but each line must already have a newline character at the end - hence the blank lines.

You could use write() but this requires a string:



This looks messy to me though - converting to an integer and then back to a string! There are many other ways to do this, including printf, string interpolation, combined with using rstrip() to remove the newline characters, etc..

Edited: Actually, Python doesn't have printf natively, but Python 2.6 includes str.format().

Maybe even just..



which chops of the last character. Etc..

If you still haven't got an workable answer please show a small input file and the result you'd like to see.

Thanks Andrew, the "-2" fixed the problem.
I was also able to fix it by changing the "print" line by:

opennew.write (str(word1) + (line[30:]) + "")

The additional quotes at the end are the ones that eliminate that additional (unwanted) enter/space. It worked for me, but honestly I do not know why, do you know what those additional quotes do?

Thanks

opennew.write (str(word1) + (line[30:]) + "")

I can't see why you would need the additional quotes. Perhaps try

print line[30:]

to see what shows in the console.