How to get rid the new line

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Frank Tobin [mailto:ftobin at neverending.org] 
> 
> Fredrik Lundh, on 2002-06-29, wrote:
> 
> > or add the single character needed to make chomp a
> > bit more robust:
> > 
> >     def chomp(line):
> >         if line[-1:] == '\n':
> >             line = line[:-1]
> >         return line
> 
> I think the fact that the first few tries here were *wrong* 
> about how to implement a chomp indicates that it really 
> should part of Python.  Just because it's easy to implement 
> doesn't mean it can't be part of the, say, string methods.  I 
> mean, look at str.{upper,lower,isdigit}, etc.  A chomp method 
> would be popular; rstrip or implementing your own doesn't cut it.

I submitted a patch for this (that handled mac, win, and unix line
endings) but it was declined by the BDFL. I suspect one of the reasons
were that I named it chomp...

-- bjorn