NEWBIE: Tokenize command output

[Duncan Booth]

bruno at modulix wrote:

>> Otherwise, just to be informed, what advantage does rstrip() have over
>> [:-1] (if the two cases are considered uneventfully the same)?
> 
> 1/ if your line doesn't end with a newline, line[:-1] will still remove
> the last caracter.
> 
In particular, if the last line of the file doesn't end with a newline then 
the last line you read won't have a newline to be stripped.