diff --git a/Lib/traceback.py b/Lib/traceback.py
index 571ff57..5f92415 100644
--- a/Lib/traceback.py
+++ b/Lib/traceback.py
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
     if badline is not None:
         lines.append('    %s\n' % badline.strip())
         if offset is not None:
-            caretspace = badline[:offset].lstrip()
+            caretspace = badline.rstrip('\n')[:offset].lstrip()
             # non-space whitespace (likes tabs) must be kept for alignment
             caretspace = ((c.isspace() and c or ' ') for c in caretspace)
             # only three spaces to account for offset1 == pos 0