perl chomp equivalent in python?

[Fred Gansevles]

François Pinard wrote:
> 
> Fred Gansevles <gansevle at cs.utwente.nl> writes:
> 
> >     for line in string.split (open (file).read(), '\n'):
> >         ....
> 
> It looks like a good idea.  You usually have an empty line at end?
> 
> --
> François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
Usually my code skips all empty lines, after the '#' is removed from the
line
Allowing comment in input files is IMO usefull (but others may disagree)

Since I usually skip empty lines, my line-parsing code looks like:

	for line in string.split (open (file).read (), '\n'):
		line = string.split (line, '#')[0]
		if not line: continue
		# insert 'real' code here ...

Now it doesn't matter if the last line is empty or not