Can anyone help with tho SoloLearn project

Question

I'm trying to print the first letter of a line and it's length in front of it but I'm printing it with a space does anyone know how to fix that:
file = open("/usercode/files/books.txt", "r")
for line in (file):
print(line[0],len(line)-1)

file.close()

Answer 1

Gonçalo Vicente ,

the space you are talking about is coming from the print statement, where the arguments to print are separated by a comma. this inserts a space between the arguments.
an other issue is, that by reading from the file, the lines (except the last one) additionally contains a *new-line sequence*. with using ...-1 in the print statement, you try to *correct* this issue, but for the last line it is not suitable.
instead of using ...-1 we can use the strip() method, that removes all trailing and leading *white spaces* and also the *new-line sequences*

so finally the line in the code is:

...
print(line[0],len(line.strip()),sep="") [Edited]
...

Answer 2

If you convert the number to a string there will be no space:

print(line[0] + str(len(line.strip())))

Answer 3

line.strip()

Answer 4

Thanks

Answer 5

It can be formatted so that there is no blank space:

print("%s%s" % (line[0],len(line)-1))

Answer 6

You can fix it for example with a rpleace statement as follows:
… line.replace(" ","") …