perl chomp equivalent in python?

[Jeff Bauer]

Paul Prescod wrote:
> What about string.strip and string.rstrip?

Those methods are indiscriminate with chopping
off whitespace when you want to preserve trailing
tabs/spaces (e.g. tab-delimited files).

Wait a sec ... didn't we already have a similar
discussion last year when you proposed adding
a second argument to the string.strip() family?

Jeff Bauer
Rubicon Research