newbie question: if var1 == var2:

[Rhodri James]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:49:10 -0000, John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net>  
wrote:

> On Dec 12, 10:31 am, "Rhodri James" <rho... at wildebst.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:49:23 -0000, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com>  
>> wrote:
>> > ... and it's so hard to write
>>
>> >      item = item[:-1]
>>
>> Tsk.  That would be "chop".  "chomp" would be
>>
>>      if item[-1] == '\n':
>>          item = item[:-1]
>
> Better:
> if item and item[-1] == '\n':
>     return item[:-1]
> return item

If we aren't going for rstrip, yes, but I was trying to stick to Steve's  
metier.

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