trailing newline in string.splitfields()

[Micah Mayo]

I was splitting up some fields in a textfile using string.split, which 
works fine, but that it usee ' ' as the delimiter. I've found that some 
of the things I want to split include a space or two, so I've gone to 
using string.splitfields, which also works fine, but for one thing. 
Unlike string.split() it also grabs the newlne('\n') at the end of each 
line.

The way I've worked around this is as such:

var1,var2,var3 = string.splitfields(stringtosplit,',')
list.append(var1)
list.append(var2)
list.append(var3[:-1])

So, I slice of the character, easy enough. And I'm generally satisfied 
with that - but I was wondering if there may be, for the cause of more 
beautiful code, a way to tell string.splitfields() to do it automatically.

Thanks,
Micah