On 4/28/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > username = getuser() > string.strip > (username) > print "username is %s" % username [snip] > > > The autoconf.txt contains two lines, which first has an ip address and > second a username. The problem I'm having is that the string.strip() doesn't > appear to be stripping the newline off the username. > > > Any ideas? If you need more information, just ask! > > > James
string.strip() returns a copy of the string with whitespace removed, it does not modify it in place. What you really want is: > username = getuser().strip() Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe just about all functions from the string module are deprecated. Use the methods from the string class. As I'm assuming getuser() returns a string object, just use the string functions on that directly. Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
