[Tutor] perl's chomp equivalent?

[Tim Condit]

Hi, 

Is there anything similar to perl's chomp, which removes newline
characters from the end of a line? I'm using this, which works just fine
if not..

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def main():
    file1 = re_proc(sys.argv[1], p1)
    file2 = re_proc(sys.argv[2], p1)
    merge_file = union(a, b)	

    for i in range(len(merge_file)):
        if merge_file[i][-1] == "\n":
            print merge_file[i][:-1]
        else:
            print merge_file[i]

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thanks, 
Tim Condit
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