path slashes cleaning

[Mathieu Prevot]

2008/9/4 Mathieu Prevot <mathieu.prevot at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> for scripts that take arguments, I would like to remove the trailing
> slash if it's present.
>
> Is there something else than:
>
> a='/usr/local/lib/'
> if a[-1] == '/':
>  a = list(a)
>  a.pop()
>  ''.join(a)

A dummy

a.rstrip('/')

Sorry for the noise
Mathieu