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Chris Rebert wrote:

> line.strip().split()

No need to strip() if you are going to split on whitespace:

>>> line = " a b c \n"
>>> line.split() == line.strip().split()
True

Lest the new idiom takes on while you are bravely fighting the immortable 
readlines() ;)