On Dec 11, 3:49 pm, John Machin <sjmac...@lexicon.net> wrote:
> On Dec 12, 10:31 am, "Rhodri James" <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:49:23 -0000, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > 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]
>
> > 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
Best:
return item \
if not (item and item.endswith('\n')) \
else item[:-1]
Though really you should be using item.rstrip()
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