> Python 2.4.3 on Red Hat 5. Trying to use strip to remove characters
> but it doesn't seem to work like I thought.
>
>
> res = subprocess.Popen(['uname', '-a'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
> uname = res.stdout.read().strip()
>
>>>> uname
> 'Linux myserver 2.6.18-274.el5PAE #1 SMP Fri Jul 8 17:59:09 EDT 2011
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux'
>
>>>> uname.strip(':')
> 'Linux myserver 2.6.18-274.el5PAE #1 SMP Fri Jul 8 17:59:09 EDT 2011
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux'
>
>>>> 'www.example.com'.strip('cmowz.')
> 'example'
>
> Thoughts?
Read the documentation carefully:
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.strip
It strips *any* of the characters in the strip() argument from either side of
the string, up to the point where it can't strip a matching character anymore.
Since the uname variable doesn't not start with a ':' on either side, it can't
strip anything, and stops immediately, returning the resulting (full) string.
You could look into split(':', maxsplit), with maxsplit not at its default
value: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.split
Otherwise, regular experssions would be a (bit more drastic) solution.
Btw, what *did* you actually expect it should do? That would give us a better
hint into the result you want.
Good luck,
Evert
>
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