Perl chop equivalent in Python?

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ pem at my-deja.com:

| Is there an equivalent command to chop (the perl command) in Python?
| If not, is there some easy way to use existing commands to do this
| simple task?  I need to do it frequently and would like to have a
| readily available command that does not require much programming.

line = line[:-1]

Sometimes, line = string.rstrip(line) is more appropriate.

You be the judge of that.

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