[Tutor] what am I not understanding?

[Alan Gauld]

On 19/10/14 23:26, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
> raw_table = ('''
> a: Ask    y: Dividend Yield
> b: Bid     d: Dividend per Share
> b2: Ask (Realtime)           r1: Dividend Pay Date
...
> o: Open’’’)
>
> key_name = raw_table.rstrip('\t')

rstrip() strips characters from the *right* hand side. When it finds a 
character that is not a strippable character(the n of Open in this case) 
it stops.

If you want to replace all tabs with spaces or nulls then you need
to use string.replace() (or sub for regex)

HTH
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