On 3/23/2010 3:09 PM pyt...@bdurham.com said...
I'm looking for a pythonic way to trim and keep leading
whitespace in a string.
Use case: I have a bunch of text strings with various amounts of
leading and trailing whitespace (spaces and tabs). I want to grab
the leading and trailing whitespace, save it, surround the
remaining text with html tags, and then add back the leading and
trailing whitespace.
I'd do it this way:
target = ' spam and eggs '
stripped = target.strip()
replaced = target.replace(stripped,"<html>%s</html>" % stripped)
HTH,
Emile
The only solution I can think of is regex, and that makes me
think of the 2 proverbial problems that come with that :)
Is there a 'better' solution than regex for this scenario? (Seems
like this would be a common type of string processing).
Thanks,
Malcolm
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