newbie question: if var1 == var2:

[Kirk Strauser]

At 2008-11-29T04:02:11Z, Mel <mwilson at the-wire.com> writes:

> You could try
>
> for item in fname:
>     item = item.strip()

This is one case where I really miss Perl's "chomp" function.  It removes a
trailing newline and nothing else, so you don't have to worry about losing
leading or trailing spaces if those are important to you.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
The Day Companies