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py32 on windows - input() includes trailing \r

Frank Millman frank at chagford.com
Wed Apr 20 09:14:35 EDT 2011 
"Peter Otten" <__peter__ at web.de> wrote in message 
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> Frank Millman wrote:
>
>> On linux, python 3.2 -
>>
>>>>> x = input()
>> xyz
>>>>> len(x)
>> 3
>>>>> x
>> 'xyz'
>>
>> on windows, python 3.2 -
>>
>>>>> x = input()
>> xyz
>>>>> len(x)
>> 4
>>>>> x
>> 'xyz\r'
>>
>> Is this expected behaviour?
>
> No, that's a bug:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue11272
>
> IMO it's severe enough to warrant a brown-bag release...
>

Thanks, Peter.

I guess I should have checked the bug tracker first.

FWIW, I have found a workaround that seems to work on both platforms -

>>> x = input().rstrip()
xyz
>>> len(x)
3
>>> x
'xyz'

Obviously this will also strip trailing spaces, but it will do for my 
purposes.

Frank
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