regex is not goto that you should always avoid using it. It have its own use-case, here regex solution is intuitive although @emile have done this for you via string manpulation.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Daniel Chiquito <daniel.chiqu...@gmail.com>wrote: > As far as I know, I don't think there is anything that strips it and > returns the material that was stripped. Regex's would be your best bet. > > Daniel > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:09 PM, <pyt...@bdurham.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> >> > > > -- > ~ > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > >
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