How to get rid the new line

[James T. Dennis]

SiverFish <occeanlinux at linuxmail.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:00:22 +0000, Peter Hansen wrote:

>> Markus von Ehr wrote:
>>> 
>>>         f = open(filename, 'r')
>>>         lines = f.readlines()
>>>         line1 = lines[0] # exemplarily for first line line1 =
>>>         line1[0:len(line1)-1]
>>> 
>>> or:
>>>         f = open(filename, 'r')
>>>         lines = f.readlines()
>>>         line1 = lines[0][0:len(line1)-1] # exemplarily for first line
>> 
>> I believe this is unsafe.  The final line may not be terminated with \n.
>> 
>> -Peter
> Any method like chomp in perl
> I just one to cut read only the line that not empty into the list

 Could try this:

	def chomp(line):
		if line[-1]=='\n':
			line=line[:-1]
		return line

 (or variations thereon, to satisfy other semantic requirements).