removing tag from a line in Python

Question

I have a text that has the following schema:

word1:word2

word3:word4

...

I would like to remove the last part
, a

Answer 1

That's because each line ends with newline character(s).

You can fix it like this (and automatically close the file):

def main():
    with open("test.txt", "r") as fileR:
        for line in (line.rstrip() for line in fileR):
            if line.endswith('
'):
                line = line[:-6]
                print line