On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:49:10 -0000, 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:
> ... 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
If we aren't going for rstrip, yes, but I was trying to stick to Steve's
metier.
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