How you chomp in python

[Gary Herron]

On Friday 19 September 2003 06:43 pm, Fernando Armenta wrote:
> How you cut off the ^M at the end of a line? rstrip is not working.
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> string.rstrip(build_number)
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> thanks,
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> -F

It works for me.  What is your evidence that it is not working?

>>> s = 'abc\n\r' # Has a ^M as last character
>>> print len(s)
5
>>> print len(string.rstrip(s)) # This works, 
3
>>> print len(s.rstrip())  # but this is preferred
3
>>>


Gary Herron