Strip last period from a host string

Question

I am having a hard time figuring out how to strip the last period from a hostname ...

current output:

• domain.com.
• suddomain.com.
• domain.com.
• subdomain.subdomain.com.
• subdomain.com.

desired output:

• domain.com
• subdomain.com
• domain.com
• subdomain.subdomain.com

attempt 1:

print string[:-1]  #it works on some lines but not all

attempt 2:

 str = string.split('.')
 subd = '.'.join(str[0:-1])
 print subd    # does not work at all 

code:

global DOMAINS

if len(DOMAINS) >= 1:
  for domain in DOMAINS:
    cmd = "dig @adonis.dc1.domain.com axfr %s |grep NS |awk '{print $1}'|sort -u |grep -v '^%s.$'" % (domain,domain)
    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,   shell=True)
    string = p.stdout.read()
    string = string.strip().replace(' ','')
    if string:
      print string

Answer 1

You do it like this:

hostname.rstrip('.')

where hostname is the string containing the domain name.

>>> 'domain.com'.rstrip('.')
'domain.com'
>>> 'domain.com.'.rstrip('.')
'domain.com'