Question

I have a python file like this

import urllib2

try:
    data = urllib2.urlopen('http:....').read()
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
    print "HTTP error: %d" % e.code
except urllib2.URLError, e:
    print "Network error: %s" % e.reason.args[1]

print data1

the output looks like this

>>>
15.95

>>>

I need to perform some manipulation of data1 (or any alternate variable) so that when I print data1 (or the new variable) the output does not have the extra line. In other words I want it to look like this:

>>>
15.95
>>>

Any help would be great I am relatively new to python. I have been screwing around with \r and cannot seem to get it to work.

Answer 1

Perhaps you just need to strip whitespace from your variable? Use data1.strip(). Read up on str.strip() for more information.

By the way, to see the whitespace explicitly, use print repr(data1).