Duncan Booth wrote: > "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To compare two strings, take copies, and: > > Taking a copy of a string seems kind of superfluous in Python.
You are right, I really meant don't do: original = original.strip().replace(....).replace(....) (a strange way of doing things which I see occasionally in other folks' code) Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list