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Starting with Python 2.2, you can use ``S.rstrip("\r\n")`` to remove all
-occurences of any line terminator from the end of the string ``S`` without
+occurrences of any line terminator from the end of the string ``S`` without
removing other trailing whitespace. If the string ``S`` represents more than
one line, with several empty lines at the end, the line terminators for all the
blank lines will be removed::