Question

I got a problem, it’s about converting from List to String to edit it

I have file text content these name

Roby
Bucky
johan

Then I want to add beside each one OK:1

so i do this code

Names='a.txt' # here is the names
O=open(Names,'r') # we open the file content the names
iamList=O.readlines() # read the name it would be List !
imSting=str(iamList) # convert it to string
Edit=imSting.replace(r"\n","Ok:1") # Editing by adding
noname=Edit
noname=noname.split()
for PT in noname:
    PT.strip('[')
    print PT

and i got this result
['RobyOk:1',
'BuckyOk:1',
'johan']
i want to delete these thing [ , '
i tried strip and replace('[','')

any ideas ?

Answer 1

You don’t need to convert it to a string to add Ok:1 at the end of each element.

You could do it with a list comprehension like this:

iamNewList = [e.rstrip() + 'Ok:1' for e in iamList]

Alternatively, to be less fancy, you could do this:

iamNewList = []
for e in iamList:
    iamNewList.append(e.rstrip() + 'Ok:1')

Note, rstrip strips all whitespace, such as newlines, off of the end of the string, which I assume is what you want.