title: how does strip() method works with append() method?
body: <p>When I run the following script</p>
  
  <pre><code>WORD_URL = http://learncodethehardway.org/words.txt
  WORDS = []
  for word in urlopen(WORD_URL).readline():
      WORDS.append(word.strip())
  print WORDS
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>python gives the following output:</p>
  
  <p>['a', 'c', 'c', 'o', 'u', 'n', 't', '']</p>
  
  <p>I am confused on how does strip() method works with append() method? Also how does readline() acts in this script?</p>