deleting the first and the last character of a string

[Padraig Brady]

Manuel Hendel wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:30:40PM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote:
> 
>>How about: line = line[1:-1]
> 
> 
> This worked quite good, but I found another problem. There seams to be
> trailing whitespaces. I tried to strip(s) to get rid of them, but this
> doesn't work, I get the following error message:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./pop3create.py", line 9, in ?
>       print strip(line)
>       NameError: name 'strip' is not defined
> 
> What's wrong here?
> 
> manuel
> 

You need to do: line.strip()
Note the alternative is to 'import string'
before you 'string.strip(line)' however
it's much better IMHO to use the new
string methods on the string object.

Pádraig.