[Python-Dev] chomp()?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> Someone just posted a patch to implement s.chomp() as a string method:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=103029&group_id=5470
> 
> Pseudo code (for those not aware of the Perl function by that name):
> 
> def chomp(s):
>     if s[-2:] == '\r\n':
>         return s[:-2]
>     if s[-1:] == '\r' or s[-1:] == '\n':
>         return s[:-1]
>     return s
> 
> I.e. it removes a trailing \r\n, \r, or \n.
> 
> Any comments?  Is this needed given that we have s.rstrip() already?

We already have .splitlines() which does the above (remove
line breaks) not only for a single line, but for many lines at once.

Even better: .splitlines() also does the right thing for Unicode.

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