perl chomp equivalent in python?

[Paul Prescod]

Jeff Bauer wrote:
> 
> 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?

Oops. I thought there *was* a second argument. I probably thought that
last year too. Any minute now, Tim's going to point out that even with a
second argument strip would be subtly different from Perl's mind reading
behavior. It's all coming back to me now.

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