End-line characters from lines read from text file, using Python
<p>When reading lines from a text file using python, the end-line character often needs to be truncated before processing the text, as in the following example:</p>

<pre><code>    f = open("myFile.txt", "r")
    for line in f:
        line = line[:-1]
        # do something with line
</code></pre>

<p>Is there an elegant way or idiom for retrieving text lines without the end-line character?</p>
