rstrip

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 12:20:25AM -0400, William King wrote:
> #made a string with leading tabs
> 
>  x  =  "        Test"
> 
> #used rstrip(x) to eliminate leading tabs (whitespace)
> 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?

Everything is fine, don't panic! rstrip removes *trailing* whitespace (i.e.
the 'r' stands for 'right', just like the 'l' in lstrip is 'left'). Do some
experiments with strip, lstrip and rstrip on a string with leading and
trailing whitespace and you'll see the difference. 

Cheers,
Malcolm Tredinnick