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

For Python 2.5 or greater, I would use the partition method:

rtr = line.partition(';')[0].rstrip() + '\n'