On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 13:44 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2008-12-11T17:24:44Z, rdmur...@bitdance.com writes: > > > >>> ' ab c \r\n'.rstrip('\r\n') > > ' ab c ' > > >>> ' ab c \n'.rstrip('\r\n') > > ' ab c ' > > >>> ' ab c '.rstrip('\r\n') > > ' ab c ' > > I didn't say it couldn't be done. I just like the Perl version better.
Python has a version equally good: def chomp(s): return s.rstrip('\r\n') chomp("foo\n") chomp("foo") chomp("perl\r\n") You'll hardly miss Perl at all. ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list