[Python-Dev] chomp()?

[Guido van Rossum]

Someone just posted a patch to implement s.chomp() as a string method:

http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=103029&group_id=5470

Pseudo code (for those not aware of the Perl function by that name):

def chomp(s):
    if s[-2:] == '\r\n':
        return s[:-2]
    if s[-1:] == '\r' or s[-1:] == '\n':
        return s[:-1]
    return s

I.e. it removes a trailing \r\n, \r, or \n.

Any comments?  Is this needed given that we have s.rstrip() already?

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