perl chomp equivalent in python?

[Nathan Clegg]

On 10-Feb-2000 Will Ware wrote:
> I often find myself doing things like this inside 'for
> ...readlines():'
> loops, and it always strikes me as cheesy and inelegant. It'd be
> kinda
> cool if readlines() could take an argument that meant to strip away
> any trailing whitespace.


Why not use string.rstrip() ???

for line in map(string.rstrip, f.readlines()):
        ....




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Nathan Clegg
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