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

Here is another way :

In [6]: line = "foo;bar"
In [7]: line[:line.find(";")] + "\n"
Out[7]: 'foo\n'