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input =  x.readline()
input = input[-1] // or input[-2] for a cr/lf input like from Windows

That do it or did I missunderstand your question?

       Ben Scherrey

Jay Loden wrote:

>I have a question for any Python programmers/hackers out there.
>
>I am reading (with popen() ) the return from a grep search.  However, using 
>read()  or readlines() also reads in "\n" after every result.  Anyone know 
>how I can read it in without the newlines?  
>
>I could of course read through the list and remove the last two characters of 
>every item, but before i do that I wanted to make sure there isn't a function 
>that reads without including \n, \t, \r and such.  Alternatively, maybe 
>someone can suggest a regex to parse it out (I don't know regular expressions 
>yet). 
>
>Thanks for any input!
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