[Tutor] <> and chomp

[William Allison]

Hi,
I'm new to programming and started with Perl but have been reading a lot
of good things about Python.  Thought I would switch before I have too
much time invested in Perl.
Anyway, my question is, is there something in Python similar to the
diamond operator and chomp from Perl?  I'm trying to read in from a file
line by line and get rid of the '\n' at the end of each line.
Thanks,
Will