Stripping new lines from strings?

[Joal Heagney]

thehaas at my-deja.com wrote:

> In article <31575A892FF6D1118F5800600846864D5B105A at intrepid>,
>   Simon Brunning <SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk> wrote:
> > > From:    Matthew Schinckel [SMTP:matt at null.net]
> > > What about using re:
> > >
> > > re.sub("\n$", '', str)
> > >
>
> Oh please, let's not make things complicated . . .
>
> str = str[:-1]
>
> Although you have to be sure that the last char is a \n, because it will
> take off whatever the last char is.  Sorta like chop(str) in Perl.

Okay, easily fixed, *grins*

if str[-1] == '\n':
    str = str[:-1]

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