perl chomp equivalent in python?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>   if line and line[-1] == '\n':
>       line = line[:-1]
> 
> You may remove the test for line if you know that it is not empty.

Or:

  if line[-1:] == '\n':
      line = line[:-1]

That works with both empty and non-empty lines.