Error with string.strip

Paolo Invernizzi paoloinvernizzi at dmsware.com
Fri Apr 20 11:58:31 EDT 2001


Python 2.1 (#15, Apr 16 2001, 18:25:49) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> import string
>>> string.strip(" 15157 ?         0:01 ttsession\012")
'15157 ?         0:01 ttsession'



"Stephen Boulet" <stepheb at comm.mot.com> wrote in message
news:3AE05834.93331DA5 at comm.mot.com...
> Can someone tell me why this doesn't work? Thanks.
>
> >>> import string
> >>> string.strip("all's well as ends well     ")
> "all's well as ends well"
> >>> string.strip(" 15157 ?         0:01 ttsession\012")
>   File "<stdin>", line 1
>     string.strip(' 15157 ?         0:01 ttsession\012')
>                                                        ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
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>
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