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

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Tue Oct 2 10:22:40 CEST 2007


"Christopher Spears" <cspears2002 at yahoo.com> wrote 

>I was looking for the source code for the strip
> functions at python.org.  I didn't find anything.  Do
> you or someone else know where the source code is
> posted?  I tried to find python on my workstation, but
> I'm not sure where the sys admin installed it.

Which OS?
Windows its likely to be C:\python25 or similar
On Linux the libraries will be in a different place to 
the executable...
On a Mac see a recent thread...

The source for strip is will be in C rather than Python 
because the string code is part of the built-in capabilities.

HTH,

Alan G.



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