title: manipulating list items python
body: <pre><code>line = "english: while  french: pendant que  spanish: mientras  german: whrend "
  
  words = line.split('\t')
  
  for each in words:
   each = each.rstrip()
  
  print words
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the string in 'line' is tab delimited but also features a single white space character after each translated word, so while split returns the list I'm after, each word annoyingly has a whitespace character at the end of the string.</p>
  
  <p>in the loop I'm trying to go through the list and remove any trailing whitespaces in the strings but it doest seem to work, suggestions?</p>