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How to block certain characters from a string in Python

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I am writing a program that takes the text written in a text document called datafile.txt, then prints what is in the file. The text that is in the file is is "Hello World", but the text that prints is "['Hello World']" How do i make it so the characters [, ], and ' do not appear.

file = open("datafile.txt", "r")

lines = file.readlines()

SaveDir = lines

print SaveDir

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answered 2 Years ago onomicsiberated · Accepted Answer

You could try this python code,

import os

file = open("/path/datafile.txt", "r")

lines = file.readlines()

str = ''.join(lines)

print str  # => Hello World

.join() function is used to convert a list into string. It prints the file contents as it is without displaying it in list.