newbie question: if var1 == var2:

[John Machin]

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:
>
>
>
> > Kirk Strauser wrote:
> >> At 2008-11-29T04:02:11Z, Mel <mwil... 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]

Better:
if item and item[-1] == '\n':
    return item[:-1]
return item