newbie question: if var1 == var2:

[Rhodri James]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:49:23 -0000, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com>  
wrote:

> Kirk Strauser wrote:
>> 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.
>
> ... 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]

:-)



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