"Christopher Spears" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I'm not sure how to proceed. My biggest stumbling > block is how to detect the leading and trailing > whitespace.
Use indexing. Recall str[-1] is the last character str[0] is the first... Try using a while loop. Or maybe two? And strings have an isspace method... HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor