In Python 2.4, how can I strip out characters after ';'?

Question

Let\'s say I\'m parsing a file, which uses ; as the comment character. I don\'t want to parse comments. So if I a line looks like this:

example.com.         


        

Answer 1

So you'll want to split the line on the first semicolon, take everything before it, strip off any lingering whitespace, and append a newline character.

rtr = line.split(";", 1)[0].rstrip() + '\n'

Links to Documentation:

• split
• rstrip