perl chomp equivalent in python?

[Will Ware]

Alex (alex at somewhere.round.here) wrote:

: > It'd be kinda cool if readlines() could take an argument that meant to
: > strip away any trailing whitespace.

: Below are some classes I often use for that sort of thing.

Thanks! Those are very pretty, particularly the use of __getitem__. I
haven't yet managed to train myself to exploit that idiom well. Maybe
Basic as a first programming language really does break your brain.
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