On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:16:21PM -0400, Michael P. Reilly wrote:
>   On 5/24/05, William O'Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>     As the subject says, I was looking for an analog to chomp, and found
>     strip() and friends (rstrip() and lstrip()), but they are deprecated.
>     I'm happy to forgo their use in preparation for 3.0 (I figure we're
>     going to live the rest of our lives in the future, we might as well be
>     ready) but I need an alternative syntax today, and I haven't been able
>     to see what I should use instead.  Anyone have a suggestion?
>
>   William,
>
>   These were all changed to object-oriented syntax on the string value
>   itself.
>     Old way          string.strip('   abcd   ')
>     New way          '   abcd   '.strip()
>
>   It may take a little getting used to, but the functionality is the same
>   and it is more in keeping with how we should be treating the built-in data
>   values as objects just like we do with class instances.

Perfect, and it make a lot of sense.  Heck, I find this much more
readable in terms of nested calls.  Thank you.
-- 

yours,

William

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