On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:08:52 -0700, Angus MacKay <amackay at starvision.com> wrote: >is there an equivilent of perl's chomp() in python or >do I have to write the function myself? string.rstrip(s) strips all trailing whitespace characters from s. If you really, really, want your trailing whitespace, try if s[-1]=='\n': s = s[:-1] -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <bmcd at es.co.nz>