How to get rid the new line

[Fredrik Lundh]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> >  Could try this:
> >
> >         def chomp(line):
> >                 if line[-1]=='\n':
> >                         line=line[:-1]
> >                 return line
>
> Just make sure you pass chomp() only lines that are not equal
> to the empty string ''.

or add the single character needed to make chomp a
bit more robust:

    def chomp(line):
        if line[-1:] == '\n':
            line = line[:-1]
        return line

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