"Colin J. Williams" schrieb > The Library Reference has > strip( [chars]) > > Return a copy of the string with the > leading and trailing characters removed. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It's "leading and trailing", not "leading, trailing or embedded". >>> "xxxaaaxxx".strip("x") 'aaa' >>> "xxxaaaxxxaaaxxx".strip("x") 'aaaxxxaaa' >>> HTH Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list