perl chomp equivalent in python?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <vndvh3w4udt.fsf at camelot-new.ccs.neu.edu>,
Justin Sheehy  <dworkin at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>Last time I checked, Python wasn't sensitive to extra whitespace at
>the _end_ of a line.

Untrue.  Like almost every other language with a continuation character
(usually "\"), whitespace after the continuation character causes an
error.  Granted, string.rstrip() will produce the *desired* behavior in
this case ;-), but I think it's still relevant that Python *is*
whitespace sensitive.
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