BTW, GMail brings up some interesting sponsored links when the subject line<br>has string.strip in it ( :-0) <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Gauld</b> <<a href="mailto:alan.gauld@btinternet.com">
alan.gauld@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>"wesley chun" <<a href="mailto:wescpy@gmail.com">
wescpy@gmail.com</a>> wrote in message<br>news:78b3a9580709300102x12cbe392uebb988ed965c7202@mail.gmail.com...<br>>> > I'm not sure how to proceed. My biggest stumbling<br>>> > block is how to detect the leading and trailing
<br>>> > whitespace.<br>>><br>>> Use indexing.<br>>> Try using a while loop.<br>>> Or maybe two?<br>>><br>>> And strings have an isspace method...<br>><br>> unfortunately, the isspace() string method only returns True if all
<br>> chars in the string are whitespace chars and False otherwise, so<br>> that's a bummer.<br><br>But the string can be one character long:<br><br>s = 'fred\n'<br>print s[-1].isspace() # --> True
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