I'm looking for a pythonic way to trim and keep leading whitespace in a string.
Use case: I have a bunch of text strings with various amounts of leading and trailing whitespace (spaces and tabs). I want to grab the leading and trailing whitespace, save it, surround the remaining text with html tags, and then add back the leading and trailing whitespace. The only solution I can think of is regex, and that makes me think of the 2 proverbial problems that come with that :) Is there a 'better' solution than regex for this scenario? (Seems like this would be a common type of string processing). Thanks, Malcolm
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