Equivalent of Perl chomp?

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Paul Rubin [mailto:phr-n2002a at nightsong.com] 
> 
> "Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
> > Do we _want_ to raise an exception if s is empty?  I'd tend to code 
> > this, intuitively, in a less strict/severe way:
> > 
> > def chomp(s):
> >   if s[-1:]=='\n': return s[:-1]
> >   else: return s
> > 
> > the slice s[-1:] is well-defined for any string s (it's the empty 
> > string if s is empty), differently from the indexing s[-1] 
> (raises if 
> > s is empty), of course.
> 
> Nice touch.  The several attempts it took to get this right 
> convinces me even more that chomp should be a built-in method 
> on strings.

I wrote a patch for this about a year ago, and it was rejected by the
BDFL, so I'm guessing the chances of getting it in are slim.

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-- bjorn