FW: RE: [Tutor] Generating random in a user specified range.

[Crabtree, Chad]

-----Original Message-----
From: Crabtree, Chad 
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:02 PM
To: 'Magnus Lycka'
Subject: RE: RE: [Tutor] Generating random in a user specified range.


> Chad Crabtree wrote:
> > you need to strip the stuff from this.  I would do it thus.  
> > import string
> > bottom=int(string.strip(strbottom))
> > top=int(string.strip(strtop))
> > 
> > this gets ride of any string whitespace strangeness that 
> canot be converted
> > to an integer.
> 
> There is no need to do that:
> 
> >>> 2 * int('    45     \n')
> 90
> 
> Besides, the string module is more or less made redundant 
> since several
> python versions back. Use " a string ".strip() instead of 
> string.strip(" a string ")
> 
Thank you.  I always have a hard time with remembering the string methods.
I can only remember the string module.  IN addition I've had more troulbe
with the class methods than with the module.  I however cannot think of a
specific example.  IIRC it was with split not doing what I wanted it to.
Interestingly "".srtip() returns a new string instead of inplaceing the
change.  Is this because strings are immutable?  I'm thinking of lists
[].sort() method being inplace but lists are happily very mutable.

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