[Tutor] Problem Stripping

[Joel Goldstick]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:09 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Python 2.4.3 on Red Hat 5. Trying to use strip to remove characters
> but it doesn't seem to work like I thought.
>
>
> res = subprocess.Popen(['uname', '-a'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
> uname = res.stdout.read().strip()
>
>>>> uname
> 'Linux myserver 2.6.18-274.el5PAE #1 SMP Fri Jul 8 17:59:09 EDT 2011
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux'
>
>>>> uname.strip(':')
> 'Linux myserver 2.6.18-274.el5PAE #1 SMP Fri Jul 8 17:59:09 EDT 2011
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux'
>
>>>> 'www.example.com'.strip('cmowz.')
> 'example'
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Leam
> --
> Mind on a Mission <http://leamhall.blogspot.com/>
> _______________________________________________
> Tutor maillist  -  Tutor at python.org
> To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

str.strip() removes characters from begining and end of the string --
Not any in between.  Notice

>>> example = "www.example.com".strip("wcomx")
>>> example
'.example.'
>>>

The x remains


-- 
Joel Goldstick