Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2008-11-29T04:02:11Z, Mel <mwil...@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 -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list