How can I remove a trailing newline?

Question

What is the Python equivalent of Perl's chomp function, which removes the last character of a string if it is a newline?

Answer 1

To remove a trailing newline you can use splitlines():-

>>> text = "line 1\nline 2\r\nline 3\nline 4" 

>>> text.splitlines() 

['line 1', 'line 2', 'line 3', 'line 4']