在pygame中编写文本时出现奇怪的矩形

Question

I'm new to pygame and python in general, so I suppose there's a possibility for major errors here.

I'm trying to make text appear in a dialog box. I've worked out the system and the text appears correctly, but when the text loads, a vertical rectangle symbol appears at the end of the text.

It seems clear to me that this symbol represents the 'return' key. Here's the text file I'm pulling from:

00*It’s your favorite game console.
01*-Player's House-

Here's how the text appears in-game.

And here's my code to break down the text file into segments:

with open("textList.txt", "r") as f:
    data = f.readlines()
    for line in data:
        cutInfo = line.split("*")
        if dblock.textnum == cutInfo[0]:
            self.text = cutInfo[1]

I'm wondering if there's a way to get rid of the rectangle without simply cutting off the end of the string, and I also want to preserve the returns within the text file so it's more readable (And isn't condensed into a single line). However, if there's no workaround, I suppose I could make those changes.

Answer 1

for line in file: retains the trailing newlines.

You can use line.strip() to get rid of leading and trailing whitespace.

cutInfo = line.strip().split("*")

If you don't want to get rid of all whitespace,

• .strip('\\r\\n') gets rid of newline characters only.
• .rstrip('\\r\\n') gets rid of trailing newline characters only.