perl chomp equivalent in python?

[Will Ware]

Samuel A. Falvo II (kc5tja at armored.net) wrote:
: That was the first message of the thread I ever saw, so I had no idea.
: Ain't Usenet great?  :(

Try deja.com to get caught up. Click on "Power Search", type
"comp.lang.python" where it asks for a newsgroup, and "perl chomp"
where it asks for keywords. A couple more clicks and you should
see the thread laid out in nicely chronological order.

The gist of the thread (at least from my perspective, as somebody
fishing for an elegant Python idiom) has been to find a way to
clean up loops like this:

for L in inputfile.readlines():
	# oops, it has a terminating newline
	L = L[:-1]     # that was ugly, and I don't know if it's portable
	....do stuff with L....

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