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

file = open(r'c:\temp\test.txt', 'r')
for line in file:   print
   line.split(";")[0].strip()