[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
> hi
> can someone explain strip() for these :
> [code]
>
>>>>x='www.example.com'
>>>>x.strip('cmowz.')
>
> 'example'
> [/code]
>
> when i did this:
> [code]
>
>>>>x = 'abcd,words.words'
>>>>x.strip(',.')
>
> 'abcd,words.words'
> [/code]
>
> it does not strip off "," and "." .Why is this so?
Probably because the Fine Manual(tm) says that str.strip() removes
heading and trailing chars ?
"""
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ python
Python 2.4.1 (#1, Jul 23 2005, 00:37:37)
[GCC 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)] on
linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> help(''.strip)
Help on built-in function strip:
strip(...)
S.strip([chars]) -> string or unicode
Return a copy of the string S with leading and trailing
whitespace removed.
If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead.
If chars is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before stripping
"""
You may want to try str.replace() instead:
"""
>>> help(''.replace)
Help on built-in function replace:
replace(...)
S.replace (old, new[, count]) -> string
Return a copy of string S with all occurrences of substring
old replaced by new. If the optional argument count is
given, only the first count occurrences are replaced.
>>> 'abcd,words.words'.replace(',', '').replace('.', '')
'abcdwordswords'
"""
> thanks
HTH
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