[Tutor] comment stripper script

[Terry Carroll]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, kevin parks wrote:

> Can anyone see why? I can't. Perhaps i just need another, more fresh,  
> pair of eyes.

Yep, I think so:

> 		line.strip()

Unless I miss my guess, this is your problem.  The above wil not modify 
line; you need:
                line = line.strip()

Otherwise, when you get to the next line of code:

> 		if not (line.startswith(';') or line.startswith('c') or  
> line.startswith('#')):

This condition fails, because the leading blanks are stil there.

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Terry Carroll
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