Problem with split() and rstrip()

**dev7060** · Jan 24 '23, 01:08 PM

From stephen.marquar [email protected] Sat Jan 5 09:14:16 2008

You will parse the From line using split() and print out the second word in the line (i.e. the entire address of the person who sent the message).

Code:

x = line.split(' ')[1]

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**pritikumari** · Jan 28 '23, 05:24 AM

The rstrip() method removes any trailing characters at the end a string, space is the default trailing character*to*re move.

I have looked at a lot of other people's questions/answers about split and strip, and I think that maybe some of my problem is that my initial code splits the text by line, thus giving me lists to work with, when in actuality, each of my lines is still a string that I need to break up and NOT a list, but because of python syntax I have to work with the string as if it were a list. Please, any advice you can give me that would help me understand what my problem is and how to fix it would be*so*appreciat ed.

**Arushi** · Jan 30 '23, 06:00 PM

The correct code to achieve the desired output should be:

Code:

fname = input("Enter file name: ")
if len(fname) < 1:
fname = "mbox-short.txt"

fh = open(fname)
count = 0
for line in fh:
if line.startswith('From:'):
pass
elif line.startswith('From'):
words = line.split()
email = words[1]
print(email)

count = count + 1

print("There were", count, "lines in the file with From as the first word")

Problem with split() and rstrip()

Problem with split() and rstrip()

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