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

I'd recommend saying

line.split(";")[0]

which will give you a string of all characters up to but not including the first ";" character. If no ";" character is present, then it will give you the entire line.