perl chomp equivalent in python?

[a.c.a. serier]

Thanks to all who responded.

Allthough I tried strip, I used is as chomp(), i.e. expecting it to change
the argument,
offcourse that doesn't work, because the stripped string is returned (it now
works
also for me too ;-)

The string[:-1] solution works also very well, after looking at it is, I
remembered seeing
something like it in Guido's tutorial :-(

Kees