Re: newbie question: if var1 == var2:

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Jason Scheirer wrote:

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()

Why not just:

    item[:-1] if item.endswith('\n') else item
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