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

just do a split on the line by comment then get the first element eg

line.split(";")[0]

Answer 2

I have not tested this with python but I use similar code else where.

import re
content = open(r'c:\temp\test.txt', 'r').read()
content = re.sub(";.+", "\n")