newbie question: if var1 == var2:

[Steve Holden]

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]

regards
 Steve
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