#!/usr/bin/python printer = open("test.txt", "w") printer.write("123456789 \n") printer.close() for line in open("test.txt", "r"): print "%s." % line print "length = %d." % len(line) # there is no chomp in python line = line.rstrip() print "%s." % line print "length = %d." % len(line) print "========================================="