rstrip
Tino Wildenhain
tino at wildenhain.de
Sat Oct 30 04:28:01 EDT 1999
Hello,
William King wrote:
>
> Just managed to download and install Python on my PC and was
> trying a few things to start out learning the language... so I guess
> that makes me a NEWBIE.... Anyhow:
>
> #made a string with leading tabs
>
> x = " Test"
>
try the following:
x = " Test "
string.lstrip(x)
'Test\011\011'
string.rstrip(x)
'\011\011Test'
string.strip(x)
'Test'
now guess why :)
> #used rstrip(x) to eliminate leading tabs (whitespace)
must be a typo. rstrip is of course for the trailing whitespaces
> import string
> string.rstrip(x)
>
> #resulted in
>
> \011\011Test
>
> #lstrip will take away tabs (whitespace) and strip will do same
> #but it appears that rstrip does not on Windows 95
> #is this a bug? or do I have to do something to redefine whitespace?
Best regards
Tino Wildenhain
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