Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am a newbie to python and am using it to interface some of my lab >equipment. > > How does one get rid of spaces at both ends of a string ? A little > like the >trim() intrinsic in fortran 95. > > One of my instruments is returning a string that has one or more > blanks in >it, and that is complicating string matching tests in one of my functions.
>>> a = ' abc ' >>> print a.strip() 'abc' -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
