BTW, GMail brings up some interesting sponsored links when the subject line has string.strip in it ( :-0)
On 9/30/07, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "wesley chun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > I'm not sure how to proceed. My biggest stumbling > >> > block is how to detect the leading and trailing > >> > whitespace. > >> > >> Use indexing. > >> Try using a while loop. > >> Or maybe two? > >> > >> And strings have an isspace method... > > > > unfortunately, the isspace() string method only returns True if all > > chars in the string are whitespace chars and False otherwise, so > > that's a bummer. > > But the string can be one character long: > > s = 'fred\n' > print s[-1].isspace() # --> True > > :-) > > Alan G > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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