On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Guido van Rossum <guido@digicool.com> wrote: > Someone just posted a patch to implement s.chomp() as a string method: ... > Any comments? Is this needed given that we have s.rstrip() already? Yes. i=0 for line in fileinput.input(): print '%d: %s' % (i, line.chomp()) i++ I want that operation to be invertable by sed 's/^[0-9]*: //'