kavitha thankaian wrote: > say for example,,i have a file test.txt and the file has the list > > a,b,c,d, > > i would like to delete the trailing comma at the end,,, >>> "a,b,c,d,".rstrip(",") 'a,b,c,d' Regards, -- . Facundo . Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/