[Tutor] String method "strip()" not working

[Mark Lawrence]

On 07/03/2015 14:54, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 07/03/15 13:15, Akash Shekhar wrote:
>> I am trying to learn how to use strip() method. It is supposed to cut out
>> all the whitespace as I read in the tutorial.
>
> Read it again more closely.
>
> -------------------
> Help on built-in function strip:
>
> strip(...)
>      S.strip([chars]) -> string or unicode
>
>      Return a copy of the string S with leading and trailing
>      whitespace removed.
>      If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead.
>      If chars is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before stripping

Presumably Python 2 (or earlier Python 3) help output.  In Python 3 
strings are always unicode, so that last line has gone.

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