As far as I know, I don't think there is anything that strips it and returns the material that was stripped. Regex's would be your best bet.
Daniel On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:09 PM, <pyt...@bdurham.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- ~
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