On 19/10/14 23:26, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
raw_table = ('''
a: Ask y: Dividend Yield
b: Bid d: Dividend per Share
b2: Ask (Realtime) r1: Dividend Pay Date
...
o: Open’’’)
key_name = raw_table.rstrip('\t')
rstrip() strips characters from the *right* hand side. When it finds a
character that is not a strippable character(the n of Open in this case)
it stops.
If you want to replace all tabs with spaces or nulls then you need
to use string.replace() (or sub for regex)
HTH
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Alan G
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