[Tutor] creating the equivalent of string.strip()

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Mon Oct 1 13:22:25 CEST 2007


Andrew James wrote:
> I've gone ahead and created a script that does this, however it also 
> strips punctuation. I was originally just comparing each character to a 
> string containing a single space ' ' but even using s[-1].isspace() I 
> lose punctuation marks. Any idea why that's happening?

Hmmm, I seem to have misplaced my glasses of distant screen reading +3 
Australia is a bit far for me to look over you shoulder. Maybe you 
should just post your code here so we can take a look.

Kent


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