Some Python 2.1 ideas

[Roy Smith]

"Bob Alexander" <bobalex at home.com> wrote:
> Finally, I'd be disappointed if the name "chomp" actually survived! I 
> just used it in my initial post as a placeholder until a better name 
> came along, since some folks would likely recall it from Perl.

We've already got the string methods strip, lstrip, and rstrip.  Why not 
just add an optional second argument which is the class of characters to 
strip.  Then chomp just becomes string.rstrip (input_string, '\n').

Even better, an optional argument to readlines to have it do the 
chomping itself.