Python string issue

Question

This is to take text from a file and combine with a string to print to a new file for a combined result

file = open('/home/user/facts', 'r')
result = open('/home/user/result.txt', 'a')
i = 1
for line in file:
 print >>result, "fact_text[%d] = \"%s\";"% (i, line)
 i += 1

For some reason the "; is showing up on a separate line, and I do not know why. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

When reading lines from a file using for line in file the resulting string contains a newline character. You can strip it off using line.strip(). So your print statement becomes:

print >>result, "fact_text[%d] = \"%s\";" % (i, line.strip())

Answer 2

Because line contains a newline character at the end. You could trim it by doing line[:-1] or -2, depending on if you have DOS or Unix line endings