In Python 2.4, how can I strip out characters after ';'?
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.
just do a split on the line by comment then get the first elementeg
line.split(";")[0]
For Python 2.5 or greater, I would use the partition method:
rtr = line.partition(';')[0].rstrip() + '\n'