newbie question: if var1 == var2:

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Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2008-12-12T15:35:11Z, "J. Cliff Dyer" <jcd at sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
> 
>> Python has a version equally good:
>>
>> def chomp(s):
>>     return s.rstrip('\r\n')
>>
>> You'll hardly miss Perl at all. ;)
> 
> I haven't missed Perl in years!  I just wish there was a basestring.stripeol
> method because I seem to end up writing the inline version of "chomp" every
> time I iterate across a file.
 >
Python is open source. You could suggest adding it and/or provide a patch.