"Ricardo Aráoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> So as not to copy strings many times :
>
> while s[0].isspace() :
> while s[-1].isspace() :
> del s[-1]
> del s[0]
Sorry, it won;t work. Strings are immutable.
However you can keep a track of the indexes of the
first and last non space characers and use slicing
if the copying seems to be a problem...
first,last = 0,-1
while s[first].isspace():
first += 1
while s[last].isspace()
last -= 1
return s[first:last]
There might be an off-by-one error in the slice, its untested...
Alan g.
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